This yearly update was delayed. After the highlights of 2017, 2018 though still a good year for the society, has not had significant dramatic improvements and in fact, project deliveries were reduced a bit as compared to the previous year. This was not intended and in fact, we’re working on increases to our programming. This intent will require further thought.
2018 resulted in large wildfires in the central interior, one of which changed the course of our road rehabilitation project south of Francois Lake. We had plans to do site preparations on previously developed prescriptions, but the Island Lake Wildfire burnt over the entire area and as a result, silvicultural planning will need to start from the beginning. We will try to incorporate our road rehabilitation planning into activities as they progress.
Wildfires also changed the implementation course of our planning work for carbon storage as the fire areas were seen to be a higher priority than the areas we previously identified in our 2017 planning processes. These planning reports are still available though and may provide priority opportunities for storage into the future.
With contributions from the Federal (ECCC) and Provincial (MFLNRORD) governments as well as the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund (HCTF) and the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC) totalling approximately $706,354 the following activities were completed or are in the process of being completed.
Proposal development: |
$21,500 |
Planning projects:
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$85,000 |
Caribou: |
$449,050 |
Other:
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$60,250 |
Administration: Staffing (manager, book keeper, website maintenance), expenses, insurance. |
$90,554 |
We are in the process of updating the project and library pages on our website and making sure a number of reports of interest are made available online.