Policy
WFCA Urges Implementation of Recommendations of Forest Inventory Review (05/17/2019)
We fully support the 2018 British Columbia Forest Inventory Review Panel Summary Report’s key messages and urge our government to fund and implement its wise and timely recommendations. We want to be proud of B.C. having a world-leading forest inventory system. Nevertheless, as the review found, significant improvements are needed to achieve this goal. Read … Read more
Trembling Aspen Stands as Firebreaks: What Options Are Available For Stimulating Aspen Stand Expansion (06/29/18)
Professional Reliance and the BC Forest Industry A Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Perspective (01/26/18)
Meeting Provincial Forest Management Objectives Through an Alternative AAC Determination Strategy (12/08/2017)
Professional Reliance and the BC Forest Industry (09/01/17)
Many Key 2016 BC Policy Commitments Raise Forestry Expectations
2016 saw a series of promising commitments from the BC Provincial Government including establishing the Forest Enhancement Society of BC, initiating the Forest Carbon Initiative and over $230-million in guaranteed funding for forestry projects. Many of the programs reflect goals of the WFCA. To read more, please click here Read more
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Why forest fires seem like they are getting out of control
Wildfire historian and author Stephen Pyne says we are in a new order of wildfire in North America: the megafire era. Fire is now capable of going beyond wild to what he calls “feral” or “rabid.” Yet the very conditions humans have created to host these megafires are where we can intervene to survive in this new … Read more
Heavy lifting remains to bring silviculture contractors into Forestry Service Providers Compensation Fund
When the B.C. government passed the Forest Service Providers Protection Act in 2010 it was intended to provide forestry operators who contract to licensees protection against losses should a client become insolvent. The then recent bankruptcy of Pope & Talbot made it clear that logging firms, silviculture contractors, seedling nurseries and forestry consultants were exposed … Read more