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
WSCA Conference:With compendiums of facts, appendices of resource material and a synoptic overview of initiatives undertaken by the WSCA in 2006 the Association presented its First Annual Report to Members at its 2007 Conference, AGM and Trade Show. The document was intended not only as a summary of last year’s work but as a benchmark … Read more
WSCA Conference:Every so many years forest policy needs to re-evaluate its assumptions and conventions to keep in step with the changing landscape and society’s management expectations. Usually this process takes the shape of a Royal Commission. We are at the stage now says forestry veteran Mike Apsey. But we don’t need a royal commission. We … Read more
WSCA Conference: Siliviculture contractors challenged Chief Forester Jim Snetsinger over the pace of work restoring forests lost to the mountain pine beetle citing the plummeting reforestation ratio and the extraordinary extent of the forest health disaster. But Snetsinger stated he didn’t want to compromise future industries that might emerge to harvest damaged stands by leveling … Read more
In this issue, we write about the still unfolding scandal in the Oregon State University College of Forestry. It is meticulously researched and, we hope a thoughtfully written assessment of the so-called “Donato controversy”—a lamentable if not inexcusable act orchestrated from the shadows by at least two OSU professors and one Forest Service scientist. Read more