Our Mission Statement:
The Kaslo and District Community Forest Society (KDCFS) will manage the diversity of values of the Community Forest in an ecologically responsible and fiscally accountable manner on behalf of the people of Kaslo and Area D.
Latest News from KDCFS
May 2025 General Board Meeting Updates
Date: May 29, 2025Time: 7:02 PMLocation: Kaslo, BC Mission Statement The Kaslo and District Community Forest Society (KDCFS) will manage the diversity of values of the Community Forest in an…
April 2025 General Board Meeting Updates
Date: April 24, 2025Time Called to Order: 8:18 PMLocation: In Person Attendance Present: Chris Webster (Chair) Stephen Fawcett (Secretary) Stephen Neville (Vice Chair) Doug Drain (Director) Jeff Mattes (Director) Sarah…
KDCFS 2025 Annual General Meeting Recap
Date: April 24th, 2025Time: 7:00 PMLocation: JV Humphries School, 500 6th Street, Kaslo, BC Attendance Total Membership: 39Voting Members Present: 3 KDCFS Attendees: Chris Webster (Chair) Stephen Fawcett (Secretary) Stephen…
Forest Stewardship Plan: 2025-2030
The Kaslo & District Community Forest Society (KDCFS) is proposing an updated Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) for Community Forest Agreement K3C. The FSP is a landscape-level plan that establishes objectives,…
2025 AGM
Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday April 24th, 7:00 pm at JV Humphries School. Here are some important details! Membership: – Memberships are valid by the calendar year.…
Wildfire Risk Reduction: Wardner TU1-A
Big things happening on the Wardner trail this fall/winter! We’ll be removing smaller trees, clearing deadwood, and conducting on-site burning to improve safety and forest health above the lookout, focusing…
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The Kaslo and District Community Forest Society (KDCFS) in 2018 was granted $50,000 from Forest Enhancement Society (FES) funding to complete a Landscape Level Wildfire Plan (LLWP) within its K3C tenure. This planning was undertaken in the wake of some of the largest and fiercest wildfires in recent British Columbia history.
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The KDCFS area based tenure lies within the Kootenay Lake Timber Supply Area. Its boundaries span a gross area of 32,416 hectares (ha), of which roughly 19 percent consist of mountain tops and alpine tundra and 81 percent are productive forest. Roughly 10,000 ha of the productive forest are considered the “working forest”. Learn More
