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
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
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
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
The BC Wildfire Act requires “If a fire starts at, or within 1 km of, the site of the industrial activity, the person carrying out the industrial activity must: (a) immediately carry out fire control and extinguish the fire, if practicable, (b) continue with fire control for the fire until (i) the fire is extinguished, … Read more