Both TimberWest and The Nature Trust are BC-based organizations with interests in, on and around Vancouver Island. TimberWest and The Nature Trust have a history of cooperation and a legacy of conservation agreements, including the permanent protection of approximately180 hectares of habitat on Vancouver Island’s Englishman River.
“TimberWest is very pleased to be able to further our partnership with The Nature Trust in our 20th anniversary year,” said Brian Frank, President and CEO of TimberWest. “TimberWest is committed to a science-based approach to protecting areas of high ecological value on its forest lands on Vancouver Island, and working in cooperation with The Nature Trust makes that commitment even stronger.”
The two organizations will explore opportunities to protect biodiversity values on TimberWest lands in the Koksilah River watershed on Vancouver Island and will also explore land conservation opportunities on other TimberWest lands.
“TimberWest is an important partner for us, and we look forward to the opportunity that this MOU provides to continue to work together to identify, and ultimately conserve ecologically important lands on Vancouver Island,” said Jasper Lament, CEO of The Nature Trust of British Columbia.
TimberWest is a leading BC timberlands company and the largest private managed forest land owner in Western Canada with 325,400 hectares / 804,200 acres on Vancouver Island. TimberWest also holds renewable Crown harvest rights to 700,000 cubic metres per year in coastal British Columbia.
