Sunshine Coast Forest District Timber

Pre-Award Timber

This department of the Sunshine Coast Forest District is currently staffed by three professional foresters and one forest technician. It is the responsibility of this group to review operational plans submitted by licensees and to make recommendations to the District Manager regarding compliance of the plans with relevant legislation. This group also administers issuance of cutting permits.

Forest Development Plans

Forest Development Plans (FDP) show proposed harvesting operations for a period of five years. Licensees are required by the Forest practices Code to submit these plans for approval by the District Manager. These plans can be approved for a term of one to two years at which time they must be replaced by a new plan.

The Code specifies the information that must be included in a FDP. This includes, but is not limited to, the location of proposed cutblocks and roads, terrain stability information, classification of streams as to whether or not they are fishbearing, location of community watersheds and other forest resources. These plans also include strategies to manage for various forest resources that may be present within the plan area.

FDP’s are referred to various resource agencies and are made available to the public for review and comment before they are submitted to the District manager for approval. The availability of FDP’s for public review is advertised in local newspapers. The advertisement will specify where the plan is available for viewing and where and when written comments must be submitted. The plan proponent must include copies of all comments received when submitting a FDP for approval. The district manager then considers the comments when making a determination regarding the approval of the plan.

Sunshine Coast Forest District Base Stocking Standards

Forest Development Plan Written Text

Forest Development Plan (FDP) maps in PDF format

Silviculture Prescriptions

A Silviculture Prescription (SP) is a stand level plan for an individual cutblock that must be submitted for the approval of the district manager. SP’s contain strategies to manage the various forest resources that are present in a particular cutblock and outline the conditions that must exist after harvesting in order to manage these resources. Typically these resources include among others, biodiversity, water quality, visual quality, wildlife, recreation and riparian areas.

A SP also provides the stocking standards for a cutblock which include the species the cutblock will be regenerated with and the timeframe within which this must occur.

Cutting Permit

A Cutting Permit (CP) provides a licensee with the authority to harvest a particular cutblock or series of cutblocks. The CP includes a map of the areas within which harvest is authorised.

A licensee may only apply for a CP for cutblocks that have been approved in a FDP. Harvesting may only occur in cutblocks for which there is an approved SP and for which a CP has been issued.

Current Forest Development Plans Following is a list of current FDP’s for the various licences within the Sunshine Coast Forest District. Licence # Licensee Geographic Area Approval Expiry A19220 Interfor Jervis Inlet North 2001/08/01 2003/07/31 A19220 Interfor Jervis Inlet South 2002/05/06 2004/05/05 A19220 Interfor Chapman-Gray Creeks 2001/07/10 2003/07/09 A19220 Interfor Desolation Sound 1999/12/05 2001/12/04 A19220 Interfor Quatam River 2002/07/29 2004/07/28 A19220 Interfor Bute Inlet 2000/05/08 2003/05/07 A19220 Interfor-Helilog Bute Inlet 1999/12/20 2001/12/19 A19223 Canfor Rainy/McNab Rivers 2000/05/09 2002/11/08 A19224 Terminal/Interfor Homathko Valley 2001/07/09 2003/07/08 A19224 Terminal/Interfor East Redonda Island 2002/07/29 2004/07/28 A19228 Doman-Western Haslam Lake/Maurelle Is./Earle Creek 2002/08/15 2004/08/14 A19229 Terminal Forest Products Homathko/Sechelt/Misery Crk./W. Redonda Is. 2001/12/18 2003/12/17 TFL 39 Weyerhaeuser Powell Lake to Hotham Sound 2002-2007 Forest Stewardship Plan 2002/07/09 2007/07/08 TFL 43 Scott Paper Homathko Valley 2002/07/19 2004/07/18 TFL 10 Interfor Toba Inlet 2001/06/08 2003/06/07 Timber Sale Majors Several Independents District Wide 2001-2005 FDP 2002/01/03 2004/01/02 TOs 780,788,863 707,851,842 712,704,656 Weyerhaeuser Clowhom/Wilson Creek/Skwakwa 2000/12/01 2002/11/30 SBFEP MOF Small Business Program District Wide 2001-2005 FDP 2002/02/18 2004/02/17 A47297 Weyerhaeuser (North West Hardwoods) District Wide 2001/12/18 2003/12/17 A60877 Western Cedar Distributors Attwood Bay Area 2002/06/17 2004/06/16 T0 383/395 Granet lake Logging Eldred River Valley 2001/06/26 2002/06/25 W0010 Thomas Wright Roberts Creek Langdale/Witlerby Point 1999/06/03 2004/06/02 W0029 Tideline Services Ltd. Duck Lake Area 2001/12/18 2011/12/17 W0039 Grambier Forest Resources Ltd. Gambier Island 1997/06/02 2002/06/01 W0046 Harper Logging Ltd. Read Island 2001/08/30 2008/08/29 W0090 Klahoose First Nation Cortes Island 2000/09/28 2005/09/27 W1671 GDF Ventures Ltd. Malaspina Penisula Texada Island 1999/07/30 2004/07/29 W1672 Sliammon First Nation Sliammon Lake 2000/04/03 2005/04/02 W1674 302958 British Columbia Ltd. Trout Lake 2000/04/26 2005/04/25

Forest Tenures

There are several different types of forest tenures or licenses within the Sunshine Coast Forest District. These tenures give the right to the tenure holder to harvest a specified volume of timber each year. This amount is known as the Allowable Annual Cut or AAC. The types of tenures in the district are Tree Farm Licences, Forest Licences , Woodlots and Timber Sale Licences. There are two categories of tenures known as area based and volume based. Area based tenures have an area described in the licence from which the licence holder can harvest the AAC. Volume based tenures give the licence holder the right to harvest an AAC from within a Timber Supply Area. There is no specific area defined in the licence. In order to provide holders of area based tenures with an area to plan operations over, administrative areas within the TSA are assigned to each licence.

Tree Farm Licence (TFL)

A TFL is an area based tenure timber. The area within a TFL is comprised of Crown Land and also often includes private land owned by the licence holder. An AAC is determined for the area at a minimum of every five years by the Chief Forester. A TFL licence has a term of 25 years and is replaceable every five years. There are three TFL’s in the SCFD with AAC’s ranging from 16,685 m3 per year to 445,000m3 per year.

Forest Licence (FL)

A FL is a volume based tenure. The term of a FL is typically 15 years and is usually replaceable every five years. There are some FL’s that are issued for a term specified in the licence and are not replaceable. Currently there are five replaceable FL’s in the district with AAC’s ranging from 33,545 m3 to 513,731 m3. There are also two non-replaceable FL’s.

Timber Sale Licence (major) (TSL(maj))

These TSL’s like the FL’s are volume based tenures but are of a much smaller scale. There are 11 of these licences within the district with AAC’s ranging from 905 m3 to 10,000m3. The term of these licences is 10 years at which time they may be replaced.

Woodlot Licence (WL)

These are area based tenures but of much smaller scale than TFL’s. Typically they include private land and Crown Land. The maximum amount of Crown Land that may be included in a Woodlot is 400 hectares on the Coast and 600 hectares in the Interior. Currently there are 8 woodlots in the district with AAC’s ranging from 1104 m3 to 4,410 m3.

Timber Licence (TL)

This licence is somewhat different from the rest in that it gives the right to harvest the merchantable timber from a specified area of land but once the area is harvested and regenerated it reverts to the Crown and becomes part of a TSA or TFL. There is no AAC associated with this form of tenure.

Community Forest Agreement

This is a new form of area based tenure intended to provide forest tenure opportunities for communities and First Nations. This tenure was first introduced under a pilot format to test the effectiveness of this form of tenure. Several pilot agreements were awarded through out the province however there are none within this district. The government recently announced an expansion of this program and several groups within the district have expressed an interest.

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