Latest News from KDCFS
Fall Operations resume: September 2021
Fall harvest operations have now resumed in 2 of our CFA locations: Keen Creek CP51 and Cooper Face CP48. Keen Creek CP51 Timber Ridge Contracting Ltd (Shane McKinnon) has relocated…
UBC wildfire research in the KDCF
Dr. Lori Daniels (Tree Ring Lab) and her research team are collaborating with community forests around BC to assess the efficacy of treatments to reduce wildfire risk and hazards.
Next Board Meeting: September 22, 2021 at 6:30pm
We invite you to join our next Board meeting on September 22, 2021 at 6:30pm.
Hemlock Looper outbreak – Keen Creek
The western hemlock looper has historically not been a catastrophic forest insect in our Kootenay Lake landscape.
Campfire Prohibitions are in Effect
Effective at noon (Pacific time) on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, Campfires, Category 2 and Category 3 open fires will be prohibited throughout the province of British Columbia.
Charity Firewood Draw 2021 and Firewood Sales
The Kaslo and District Community Forest Society is taking reservations for logging truck loads of mixed species firewood.
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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
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.