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
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…
Summer 2024 Operations Update ☀️
Keen Creek: Timber Ridge Logging will be moving equipment into Keen Creek this week to harvest a 30-hectare fire-damaged pulp block. Logging will occur at the top of the Deer…
Public Review Open on KDCFS Forest Operations Map
The public is invited to review and comment on the Kaslo & District Community Forest Society (KDCFS) Forest Operations Map (FOM). The Map shows proposed road construction and cut block…
Jimi Crack Corn Community Field Tour
Saturday April 27th – 10:00 AM meet at the brake check on highway 31. Come learn about the wildfire risk reduction project we’ve been working on over the winter!
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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
