Practice

An open letter to all forest companies and silviculture contractors in Western Canada from the WSCA

March 12, 2009

In an open letter to BC forest companies and licensees the WSCA is asking them to adopt prompt and regular payment protocols to reduce silviculture contractors’ and their employees’ exposure to the risk of going unpaid for completed contract silviculture work. Read more

WSCA Appeals to Minister to Pay Unsecured Creditors for Planting

January 22, 2009

The WSCA has asked Minister of Forests and Range Pat Bell to find a way to compensate three B.C. silviculture firms owed money after planting trees on Crown land for license holders who later went bankrupt. Read more

Premier Promises to Change Woodworker’s Lien Act

January 22, 2009

Premier Gordon Campbell has announced that government will move to protect forest contractors from going unpaid by license holders.But it is uncertain whether his promise to strengthen the antique Woodworker’s Lien Act will provide any certainty to silviculture contractors who may go unpaid for providing silviculture services to bankrupt clients. Read more

Silviculture: Putting The Forest In Forestry

October 8, 2008

Silviculture practice in B.C. is in decline while the area under assault from pests and pathogens exceeds 13 million hectares. Yet the Roundtable does not specifically include silviculture among its four key areas of concern. Read more

Nurseries replenishing B.C.’s forests wither on the vine

September 29, 2008

The way Robin Dawes sees it, there’s no doubt she’s a farmer. As the nursery manager for K & C Silviculture Ltd., in Oliver, B.C., Ms. Dawes is responsible for overseeing 120 greenhouses stocked with seedlings. Read more

Forests minister unveils timber idea

September 19, 2008

B.C.’s newly-minted forests minister, Pat Bell, has unveiled a concept he believes can prevent a significant decrease in timber supply in the Interior from the pine beetle epidemic. Read more

Stumped: B.C. reforestation

August 18, 2008

On an overcast morning in early May, a chill bites the air with just the slightest of ocean breezes. It’s as if winter never left. Days earlier, snow, hail and wind arrived to knock the pink blossoms off of boulevard cherry trees and make a mockery of southern Vancouver Island’s so-called “Mediterranean” climate. Read more

WSCA Strategic Summit: August 2008 – Planning for difficult times and tight markets

July 8, 2008

As many of you know sowing requests for the 2009 planting season indicate one of the lowest annual planting programs in two decades. Our estimate comes in at under 200 million seedlings total including projections for a very meagre ’09 summer plant. Read more

BC Timber Sales Sets Safety Certification Standard

June 19, 2008

VICTORIA – BC Timber Sales is improving forest worker safety by requiring all its contractors and those companies that conduct on-the-ground works under a timber sale licence advertised after Dec. 31, 2008 to be SAFE Company certified. Read more

Industry Group Proposes Fire Fighting Tool Practices

May 3, 2008

Following at six month consultation process the WSCA and key industry groups affected by high hazard forest activities defined by the B.C. Wildfire Act and Wildfire Regulation have presented guidelines intended to apply to vegetation management crews, silviculture operations and other industrial operations working with reduced road access, mobile operations and remote worksites. Read more

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