Practice
BC Timber Sales Sets Safety Certification Standard
Industry Group Proposes Fire Fighting Tool Practices
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
WSCA Forestry Roundtable Proposals Address WUI and Silviculture Liability
The WSCA has asked the Premier’s Forestry Roundtable to make regulatory changes to expedite fuel management work near communities. It also asked that government require licensees to post bonds, set up a trust or some other form of security to ensure silviculture obligations are funded if companies go bankrupt. The latter would serve to protect … Read more
WSCA Asks to End Spring Planting Later
A cool, wet spring is leaving Interior blocks frozen, under snow and likely to delay the start up to this year’s main planting season. The WSCA is asking industry to shift the end of the planting window later rather than run a shortened season to meet the calendar deadline usually set in mid to late … Read more
Bruce Fraser Sees the Future
The Chair of the Forest Practices Board spoke to the WSCA Conference delivering an at times dismaying account of the possible future of forestry—and just about everything else—mapping the uncertainties we need to deal with in heading there. At his most distressing and delightful when describing a possible environmental administration gone to the extreme Fraser … Read more
Planting Trends and Sowing Request Projections
Tree Planters Seeking Solutions To Crucial Forestry Issues At Conference
Proliferation of Prime Contractors follows Coroner’s Inquest
BCTS To Require SAFE Company Registration April 1, 2007
BC Timber Sales will require contractors bidding on timber licenses and specified contracts, including silviculture projects, to be registered with the BC SAFE Company program after 1 April 2007. The program requires registrants to be audited and successfully certified within six months of their registration. However, BCTS has held off on making full SAFE Company … Read more