The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) program and timber-sale licence holders in the Nadina Natural Resource District portion of the Babine Business Area during the week of Aug. 17, 2020.
Auditors will examine whether timber harvesting, roads, bridges, silviculture, fire protection activities and associated planning carried out between Aug. 1, 2018, and Aug. 21, 2020, met the requirements of the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire Act.
This BCTS program is one of two chosen randomly each year for audit from all the BCTS programs in the province. This audit will focus on the Burns Lake field unit, which has an allowable annual cut allocation of 284,506 cubic metres.
The Burns Lake field unit is located in the Lakes Timber Supply Area (TSA). It is bound by Tweedsmuir Provincial Park to the south and includes Babine, Francois and Ootsa Lakes – some of B.C.’s largest natural bodies of freshwater.
The Forest Practices Board is B.C.’s independent watchdog for sound forest and range practices, reporting its findings and recommendations directly to the public and government.
