Forestry Ink: Tenure reform through expansion of the woodlot program (Williams Lake Tribune)
September 8, 2019 In contrast to replaceable forest licences with a few large corporations controlling over 50 per cent of the Allowable Annual Cut (AAC), [...]
Does BC Need More Woodlot Licences?
Summer 2019 Woodlot Licences are part of a little industry that makes a big difference on BC’s forest stewardship landscape. Most people don’t know what [...]
Audit of Woodlot Licence Finds Non-Compliance (Forest Practices Board)
June 20, 2019 An audit of forestry activities on a woodlot in the Peace Natural Resource District has found a significant non-compliance with the Woodlot [...]
Four Woodlot Licences near Fort St John Receive Good Forest Practises Board Audit (Forest Practices Board)
June 5, 2019 FORT ST. JOHN – An audit of four woodlots in the Peace Natural Resource District found all four met the requirements of [...]
Taking Social Licence to a New Level
Spring 2019 Social Licence for Crown forests is becoming increasingly challenging today with more public demands on the same piece of land – recreation, visual [...]
Peter deMarsh, advocate for family forestry killed in Ethiopian Plane Crash (Canadian Federation of Woodlot Owners)
March 12, 2019 Longueuil, March 11th, 2019 - Members of the Canadian Federation of Woodlots Owners were deeply saddened to learn of the death of [...]
Resilient Forests for 2019
Winter 2018 It has been another year of unprecedented wildfires causing devastation to our forests, impacting Woodlot Licences, Community Forests, First Nations, companies with timber [...]
Catastrophic Wildfires – Why did it happen and what can be done?
Fall 2018 Catastrophic Wildfires – why did they happen and what can be done? Fall 2018 Woodlot licensees gathered in Williams Lake for the Federation [...]
Forest Management Post Wildfires Focus of Federation of BC Woodlot Associations AGM (Williams Lake Tribune)
October 19, 2018 Woodlot licensees, joined ministry, industry, local government and academics from around the province for the Federation of BC Woodlot Associations AGM held [...]
Woodlot associations AGM to tackle wildfire impacts, prevention and risk reduction (Williams Lake Tribune)
September 22, 2018 Woodlot owners from across B.C. will converge in Williams Lake in October for an annual general meeting to focus on wildfire impacts, [...]
Distressed Community Takes Things into Their Own Hands as Wildfire Threatens Their Community (Kamloops BCNow)
August 23, 2018 A group of communities located by Ootsa Lake are feeling the heat from large wildfires progressing towards their properties… The communities typically [...]
Post Wildfire 102 – Restoring the Forest
Summer 2018 Nature’s balancing act is challenging enough without interference. How we have managed our forests through the decades, our success at fire suppression and [...]