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
Congratulations to Kaslo Baseball & Softball Association!
Home run for the Kaslo Baseball & Softball Association! Huge shoutout to the 20+ dedicated volunteers, both youth and adults, who bucked and split firewood donated by the Kaslo &…
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Mt Buchanan Trail Work in Progress
Exciting news! 🌲🔥 Last week, we kicked off our wildfire risk reduction efforts on the Mt Buchanan Fire Access Trail! Over the next month, we’ll be hard at work in…
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Community Field Day
You are invited on a guided field tour to Keen Creek with the Kaslo & District Community Forest Society. Saturday September 30th 10:00 am to 2:00 pm This tour will…
KDCFS 2023 Operations Update
KDCFS operations to salvage fire damaged timber from the Briggs Creek wildfire have begun. Sunshine Logging started road construction by Kemp Creek to access CP 52-01. This block is 30ha…
KDCFS Wildfire Risk Reduction
After watching the Briggs Creek wildfire burn down the Nashton Face last summer it reinforces thataccess is critical to enable crews to combat fires and the need for us to…
BRIGGS CREEK WILDFIRE – Update
KDCFS has developed several blocks on the Nashton Face behind the Kaslo dump and in Keen Creek to harvest timber damaged from the Briggs Creek wildfire. The block locations can…
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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
