Southern Interior Forest Region (SIFR)
The Southern Interior Forest Region is comprised of what was the
Cariboo, Kamloops and Nelson Forest Regions prior to 2003.
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Regional Office
515 Columbia Street
Kamloops, BC
V2C 2T7
Phone: 250-828-4131
Fax: 250 828-4154
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Quick Facts:
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- Regional Office is located in Kamloops
- Regional Service Centers are located in Nelson and Williams
Lake
- 12 Districts, 10 Satellite Offices
- 2 time zones, several mountain ranges
- New office complex underway – completion date November 2008
- $70M in allocation and recoveries
- 25M hectares – approx 60% in productive forest land
- 32,400,000 m³ annual AAC (37.9% of provincial total) ... and
growing
- 31,302,078 m³ cut and billed in Fiscal 06 (34.5% of provincial
total)
- $435,182,790 revenue generated in Fiscal 06 (39.2% of
provincial total)
- 15 Timber Supply Areas
- 12 Tree Farm Licences (and growing), 407 Woodlots,
- 73 Forest Licences;17 Community Forest Agreements
- 16,575 non-BCTS kms of Forest Service roads
- 220 Forest Service bridges
- 86 First Nation Bands and Tribal Councils
- 18 First Nations Forest and Range Agreements
- 90M seedlings planted each year – 10M in fire denuded areas by
spring 07
- 4.7M hectares infested by Mountain Pine Beetle (surveyed in
2005)
- 135 mountaintop repeaters
670 friendly Forest Service team members .
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We will soon be moving to a brand new
building
(currently under construction...) |
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