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Forest Practices Code Transition Training
In August of 2003, a number of regulatory
changes were made that affected forest practices and set
the stage for a more results based forest management regime
in BC.
These changes:
- clarified and streamlined requirements for planning, silviculture,
harvesting, roads and administrative remedies;
- established BC Timber Sales;
- brought the new College of Applied Biology Act into force;
and
- brought the revised Foresters Act into force.
On December 17, 2002, streamlining amendments to the
Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and regulations
came into effect.
These amendments will reduce the number
of transactions between government and licensees over a two-year
transition period until the new Forest and Range Practices
Act is fully implemented in April 2005.
By streamlining
the existing code now, resource management practitioners can
start working toward a results-based forest and range practices
regime.
The Timber Harvesting
and Silviculture Practices Regulation(THSPR) replaces the
Timber Harvesting Practices Regulation and Silviculture Practices
Regulation. The Operational Planning Regulation is replaced
by the Operational and Site Planning Regulation(OSPR). As
well, the following regulations were significantly revised:
- Forest Road Regulation
- Woodlot Licence Forest Management Regulation
- Community Forest Agreement Regulation
- Fort St. John Pilot Project Regulation
- Administrative Remedies Regulation.
Minor changes were made to nine other regulations.
This Web site is designed to provide resource
management practitioners with information they need to fulfil
their legal obligations under the revised Forest Practices
Code.
The FPC
Transition Primer (
1,791 Kb), which forms the body of the information
on this website, is also available in printed format through
the following sources:
- public
libraries throughout BC
- university
libraries
- key
agencies (Forintek, Feric, First Nations Summit, CISTI)
- National
Library of Canada
The information
on this website is organized according to subject area. Use
the links on the left side of each page to access the various
subject areas.
Most of the content
on this website can be downloaded for saving to local disk:
access the master list of materials by going to
Resources or clicking on "Downloads"
at the top of each subject area page to see what is available
on that topic.
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