WOODLOT LICENCE FOREST MANAGEMENT REGULATION

Contents

B.C. Reg. 325/98 Deposited September 23, 1998
O.C. 1202/98 Effective November 30, 1998 (Consolidated to December 12, 2003)

Part 1 – Definitions and Interpretation   1. Definitions   2. Interpretation   3. Application   4. Workers Compensation Act prevails Part 2 – Operational Plans   Division 1 – General   5. Best information available   6. Additional watershed assessment information   Division 2 – Forest Development Plans   6.1 Additional exemptions for forest development plans   7. Review and comment for forest development plans   8. Repealed   9. Period and effective term of a forest development plan   10. General content requirements of forest development plans   11. Information required for the entire woodlot licence area   12. Information required for portions of the woodlot licence affected by proposed operations   13. Information required for portions of the woodlot licence within proposed cutblocks   13.1 Terrain stability field assessments   14. Additional required information for proposed cutblocks that must be contained in a forest development plan or a site plan   15. Archaeological impact assessment may be required   16. Information not required for minor salvage and minor harvesting operations   17. Protection of issued cutting permits and road permits   Division 3 – Site Plans   18. Requirement for site plan if information was not included in the forest development plan   19. Requirement for a site plan   20. Holder of a woodlot licence may submit a site plan   21. Site plan may cover an area larger than the area of proposed harvesting   22. Authorized signatures   22.01  Exemptions for harvesting   22.02 Requirements in an exempted area   Division 3.1 – Silviculture Prescriptions   22.1 Content of silviculture prescriptions   22.2 Repealed   Division 3.2 – Operational Plans for Areas of Unauthorized Harvesting   22.3 Operational plans for areas of unauthorized harvesting   Division 4   23. Repealed   23.1 Repealed   Division 5 – Amendments   24. Amendments required   24.1 Minor amendments to operational plans   24.2 District manager actions where amendments wrongly made   25. Amendments respecting cutblock information   25.1 Amendments to logging plans   Division 6 – Transition   26. Repealed   27. Repealed   28. Requirement for a site plan – transition   29. Requirement for a logging plan – transition Part 3 – General Forest Practices   30. Compliance with plans and authorizations   31. District manager’s included powers   32. General wildlife measures   33. Constraining slash and debris in and around aquatic environments   34. Restrictions on use of machinery   35. Restrictions on harvesting or modification of trees in riparian reserves   36. Forest practices within community watersheds   37. Limits on area that may be occupied by permanent access structures   38. Limits on area that may be occupied by soil disturbance Part 4 – Roads   Division 1 – Interpretation   39. Definitions   40. Application   41. Authority to construct, modify or use a road on Crown land   41.1 Exemptions for roads   Division 2 – General Road Requirements   42. Repealed   Division 3 – Layout and Design   43. Road layout and design and related assessments – general   44. Selecting road location   44.1 Site inspections   45. Content of road layout and design   46. Drainage design [Repealed]   47. Requirements for designs of bridges, culverts, etc. [Repealed]   Division 4 – Construction, Modification and Maintenance   47.1 Requirements for designs of bridges, culverts, etc.   48. Subgrade construction   49. Building or installing drainage systems   50. Revegetation   51. Bridge and major culvert inspection, evaluation and maintenance   52. Follow up to inspection of bridge and major culverts   53. Road inspection and maintenance   Division 6 – Deactivation   54. Timing windows for road deactivation   55. Road deactivation   56. Amendment of deactivation prescription   57. Hazard warning Part 5 – Harvesting Practices   58. Wildlife tree retention   59. Repealed   60. Harvesting on sensitive slopes within community watersheds   61. Harvesting on sensitive slopes outside of community watersheds   62. Excavated or bladed trails   62.01 Excavated and bladed trails may be constructed   62.1 Requirement to rehabilitate a road that is not a permanent access structure   62.2 Requirements for access trails   63. Landings   64. Restrictions on harvesting in gullies on the Coast   65. Restrictions on minor harvesting operations or minor salvage operations in sensitive ecosystems   66. Harvesting adjacent to streams, wetlands and lakes not identified or incorrectly classified   67. Repealed   68. Temporary stream crossings   69. Maintaining stream bank stability   70. Restrictions on the location of helicopter or balloon log drop areas   71. Felling, yarding and skidding   72. Landing and roadside slash accumulations   73. Rehabilitation of compacted areas and corduroyed trails   73.1 Protecting the environment Part 6 – Silviculture   Division 1 – Definitions   74. Definitions   Division 2 – Obligations to Produce a Free Growing Stand   75. Application   76. Producing a free growing stand on required areas   77. Stocking requirements at regeneration date   78. Stocking requirements at free growing date   79. Maximum density spacing requirement   80. Target stocking standard   Division 3 – Free Growing Requirements for Areas Under Silviculture Prescriptions   81. Maximum density spacing treatment requirement if there is a silviculture prescription for the area   81.1 Silviculture obligations for non-replaceable woodlot licences   Division 4 – Silviculture Treatment Constraints   82. Use of seeds and vegetative material   83. Repealed   84. Use of livestock for silviculture purposes   85. Repealed   86. Use of fertilizer for silviculture purposes   87. Insect behaviour modifying treatments   Division 5 – Surveys and Reports   88. Silviculture surveys   88.1 Free growing declarations   88.2 Waiver or funding of free growing obligation   89. Reporting obligations Part 7 – Riparian Widths   Division 1 – General   90. Determining the applicable riparian widths   91. Measuring riparian widths   Division 2 – Streams   92. Riparian classes of streams   93. Minimum widths of riparian reserve zones and riparian management zones   Division 3 – Wetlands   94. Riparian classes of wetlands   95. Minimum widths of riparian reserve zones and riparian management zones for wetlands   Division 4 – Lakes   96. Riparian classes of lakes   97. Minimum widths of riparian reserve zones and riparian management zones for lakes Part 7.1 – Ungulate Winter Range and Identified Wildlife   97.1 Repealed   97.2 Repealed   97.3 Ungulate winter range   97.4 Identified wildlife and general wildlife measures   97.5 Regionally important and identified threatened or endangered fish Part 8 – Offences   98. Offences Part 9   99. Repealed SCHEDULE A – Stocking Standards