Practice
Forest For Tomorrow Program Considers Alternative Recipient Models
BCTS Considers Guidelines for Employment Standards Compliance
BC Timber Sales is considering implementing a set of guidelines outlining the agency’s role in ensuring that its silviculture contractors are complying with the province’s employment standards guidelines for silviculture. The proposal has been developed and recommended by the BCTS Contract Advisory Committee and now awaits final executive approval. Once approved the guidelines will take … Read more
Danger Tree Falling Not to Be Included as Part of Per Tree Bid Price on BCTS Contracts
Green Plan 2050
Across the B.C. landscape a number of destructive biological imperatives are gathering force including, besides the mountain pine beetle epidemic, other forest pests and blights, general eco-system degradation and impending seasons of landscape-scale forest fires. All these dramatic features of the province’s ongoing forest health crisis are connected in causes, circumstances and consequences. Read more
BC Planting Increase for Spring 2006
Is the province equipped to tackle the pine beetle’s long-term impact?
As many British Columbians know, the province is witnessing one of its biggest logging booms in decades. More trees are falling than ever in the Interior, and will for years to come. But today’s boom presages a dark future wherein resource-dependent communities and the provincial treasury both will be hit hard. Read more
The BC Forest Industry – Dying Goose Or Dead Duck?
BC Government Announces Forestry Funding
The BC government has announced a five-year 185-million program to begin addressing the reforestation backlog created by the mountain pine beetle disaster, recent forest fires, and years of low public forestry funding. The dollars are aimed at brushing impeded stands, reforesting the mountain and pine beetle backlog, and replanting the old pre-1987 NSR. Read more
Provincial Climate Change Plan Identifies Wildfire Risk
The province’s recently released report on climate change “Weather, Climate and the Future: B.C.’s Plan” makes 40 recommendations including the need to “improve fire protection for communities in British Columbia”. The document also makes a strong statement on the ownership of forest carbon sinks on Crown land. Read more