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Salvage logging near Quesnel has negative impacts on species at risk

VICTORIA – An investigation of a complaint by two trappers has concluded that the population of fisher — a fur-bearing mammal that is a species at risk in B.C. — is at a high risk of decline or local elimination in the Nazko region, west of Quesnel. The Nazko area experienced widespread tree mortality from mountain […]
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Board to audit small scale-salvage program near Williams Lake

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will audit the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development’s small-scale salvage program and salvage licence holders in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District, starting Sept. 24, 2018. Auditors will examine whether harvesting, roads, silviculture, fire protection and associated planning, carried out between Sept. 1, 2017, and Sept. 28, 2018, […]
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Forest Practices and Planning in the Sustut Valley North of Smithers, BC

This special investigation examines a series of complaints made by the An Dsap Wilp Society (the society), a group of...
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Changes needed to B.C.’s forest practices legislation

VICTORIA – In a new report released today, the Forest Practices Board is recommending that government make a number of improvements to the Forest and Range Practices Act (FRPA). These improvements all have been recommended in previous board reports, but government has never implemented the recommendations. “The board believes these changes are necessary to improve stewardship of […]
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Board to audit West Fraser Mills Ltd.

VICTORIA – The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of West Fraser Mills Ltd. on tree farm licence 52, near Quesnel, during the week of Oct. 30, 2017. Auditors will examine whether harvesting, roads, silviculture, fire protection and associated planning, carried out between July 2016 and October 2017, met the requirements of the Forest and […]
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Biodiversity Conservation on Mount Elphinstone, Sunshine Coast in the Sunshine Coast Forest District

In August 1999, two residents of the Sunshine Coast complained that forest practices in operational plans approved by...
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Norbord Inc. Passes Forestry Audit

NEWS RELEASE - Norbord Ltd. passes forestry audit
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Effects of Power Line Clearing on Domestic Water Supply Near Thutade Lake in Northern B.C. in the Mackenzie Forest District

Between 1997 and 1998, Royal Oak Mines Inc., Kemess Mines Division (the licensee) constructed a 380-kilometre power...
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Maintaining Biodiversity in a Cutblock on Southwestern Vancouver Island in the South Island Forest District

In July 1999, the Board received a complaint from an individual who works as a faller. He was required, as part of his...
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Husby Forest Products passes forestry audit

NEWS RELEASE - Husby Forest Products passes forestry audit
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