We invite you to join our next Board meeting on March 23, 2022. In person in the Loki Room at the Langham @ 7pm or via Zoom. Link to ZOOM Virtual Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471 The Board welcomes input from the public during a five minute consultation period at the end of each meeting. Please visit one of …
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Update to 2022 AGM announcement: date and venue set April 13
We invite you to the KDCFS 2022 AGM on Wednesday, April 13th at 7pm at the Langham Theatre. The following resolutions have already been submitted to the AGM for voting: That the KDCFS bylaws be changed – In 13 (4) the text starting with “Further, three weeks…” will be replaced with “Further, prior to such …
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Next Board Meeting: February 23rd, 2022 at 7pm
We invite you to join our next Board meeting on February 23, 2022. In person in the Loki Room at the Langham @ 7pm or via Zoom. Link to ZOOM Virtual Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471 The Board welcomes input from the public during a five minute consultation period at the end of each meeting. Please visit one of …
Next Board Meeting: January 26th, 2022 at 7pm
We invite you to join our next Board meeting on January 26, 2022. In person in the Loki Room at the Langham @ 7pm or via Zoom. Link to ZOOM Virtual Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471 The Board welcomes input from the public during a five minute consultation period at the end of each meeting. Please visit one of …
Next Board Meeting: December 15, 2021 at 7pm
We invite you to join our last Board meeting of 2021 on December 15, 2021. In person in the Loki Room at the Langham @ 7pm or via Zoom. Link to ZOOM Virtual Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6949720471 The Board welcomes input from the public during a five minute consultation period at the end of each meeting. Please visit …
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 from Lost Ledge to Keen Creek at the end of August. He will be harvesting the conventional portion of this salvage block. A cable logger …
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.
Hydrocarbon films or petroleum?
We recently investigated a potential petroleum spill in a small seep area at one of our skid trails. I had traveled though this saturated area with my ATV repeatedly to action a small wildfire by the lookout below. You can see the track in the picture. At the time there was no contamination visible in the …