BC Timber Sales - updates and information releases

• April 12, 2024 Notice to Clients - BC Wildfire Service Policy 9.12 - Open Fire (DOCX, 65KB)
  • Fact Sheet: Amendments to the Wildfire Regulation 2023 (PDF, 175KB)
  • Wildfire legislation and regulations
• February 23, 2024 Road Use Permit Mandatory for FSR Users (PDF, 105KB)
• February 2, 2022  Memo - RUP Amendment & Termination Submissions move to NROS March 2022 (PDF, 205KB)
• October 27, 2021 - All Licensee letter NROS RUP Application training (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Road use permit electronic application information summary (PDF, 186KB)
• Natural Resource Online Services (NROS) Portal Road use permit (RUP) Applications:
  • Tenures Branch Letter to all forestry licensees regarding NROS RUP Applications (Release Two in letter applies to Road Use Permits. Questions should be directed to the contact identified in the letter.)
  • NROS RUP Training Video (YouTube)
•  All Registrants Notice - Amendment of the BC Timber Sales Regulation - Category 2 Forest Licence March 26, 2021 (PDF, 198KB)
  • Order in Council 139/2021 
• All Registrants Notice - Advisory Bulletin No. 2020-09-11 - Special Tree Protection Regulation (PDF, 1.2MB)
• All Registrants Notice - April 1 2019 policy changes (PDF, 149KB)
• All Registrants Notice - Fee-in-Lieu Changes (Coast Only) July 8, 2019 (PDF, 111KB)
• All Registrants - Notice of Intent to cancel service on Official Notices System (ONS) June 15, 2020 (PDF, 129KB) 
• All Registrants Notice - Electronic bidding Pilot Extension June 28 2020 (PDF, 95KB)
• All Registrants Notice - Amendments to the Wildfire Regulation June 2020 (PDF, 309KB)

No updates or information releases at this time.

No updates or information releases at this time.

No updates or information releases at this time.

• Roberts Creek and Stephens Creek Watershed Assessment Background Letter (PDF, 245KB)
• Roberts Creek and Stephens Creek Phase 1 and 2 
  • Polar Hydrologic Assessment Roberts and Stephens Creek Phase 1 & 2 Map (PDF, 9.1MB)
  • Polar Hydrologic Assessment Roberts and Stephens Creek Phase 1 & 2 Volume 1 (PDF, 17.5MB)
    Polar Hydrologic Assessment Roberts and Stephens Creek Phase 1 & 2 Volume 2 (Photos) (PDF, 33.4MB)
• Mt. Elphinstone South Watershed Assessment Phase 1&2 Information Bulletin (PDF, 186KB)
• Mt. Elphinstone (TA0521) Information Bulletin (PDF, 163KB)
• Mt. Elphinstone South Watershed Assessment Phase 1&2
  • Hydrologic Assessment Phase 1&2 (Map) (PDF, 86MB)
  • Watershed Assessment Phase 1&2 Volume 1 (PDF, 22MB)
  • Watershed Assessment Phase 1&2 Volume 2 (Photos) (PDF, 54MB)
• Mt Elphinstone South Watershed Assessment Phase 3 Review (PDF, 9MB)
• Mt Elphinstone South Watershed Assessment Presentation and Zoom Recording
• ELF Letter to BCTS & Peer Review of Polar Geoscience Reports 2023 (PDF, 1.8MB)
• Polar Geoscience Response to Peer Review Commissioned by ELF 2023 (PDF, 7 MB)
• Information Note: Dakota Bowl - BC Timber Sales License A87126 in Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation) Territory (PDF 107KB)
• TCH Newsletter - November 2023 (PDF 1.4MB)

As per the Integrated Pest Management Act of British Columbia, Section 61(1), BC Timber Sales is developing an Integrated Pest Management Plan to ensure effective and safe vegetation control on crown land in the North Thompson region. The public is invited to review and comment on this plan, which will be active from 2024-2029.

• Development of a Pest Management Plan - North Thompson Region

• Factsheet - Mark Creek (PDF, 233KB)
• Wildland Urban Interface Harvesting (PDF, 628KB)
• Watershed Management - Boundary Timber Supply Area (PDF, 253KB)
• Hornet Creek Harvesting and Road Construction (PDF, 233KB)

• Road Use Permit Amendments and Terminations will Continue to be Submitted to Forest Districts until early March 2022 (PDF, 202KB)
• Factsheet - Reducing wildfire risk near Ellison Provincial Park (PDF, 401KB)
• TA0499 Licence Location Map (PDF, 453KB)
• FAQ: Rose Swanson Mountain – Proposed BC Timber Sales Development (PDF, 168KB)
• Rose Swanson Sensitive Area FSP Amendment - Proposed Results and Strategies - Sept. 13, 2021 (PDF, 395KB)
  • Draft Map – Appendix H1: Rose Swanson Sensitive Area FSP Amendment Zones 1 and 2 – Sept 13, 2021 (PDF, 10.3MB)
• Final Map - Appendix I-1: Rose Swanson Sensitive Area FSP Amendment Zones 1 and 2 - April 2023 (PDF, 919KB)
• Amendment #5 Visuals Fire Salvage (PDF,  240KB)

No updates or information releases at this time.

Spruce beetle management

The spruce beetle outbreak in the Omineca Region started in 2013 and has impacted areas of BC Timber Sales’ Prince George and Mackenzie operations.

Learn how BCTS is monitoring and managing the outbreak.

• Addendum BCTS Spruce Beetle 2022 Action Plan report (PDF, 267KB)
  • BCTS Prince George and Mackenzie Spruce Beetle Action Plan map (PDF, 2MB)

No updates or information releases at this time.

Snowden Forest:

• Notice: 2021 to 2022 Snowden trail closures (PDF, 168KB)
• 2021 BCTS operations map (PDF, 4MB)

Harvest plan maps:

• Harvest plan map Block K003C3XG (PDF, 1MB)
• Harvest plan map Block K004C3XN (PDF, 694KB)
• ​Harvest plan map Block K004C3XH (PDF, 1MB)
• Harvest plan map Block K004C4KB (PDF, 1.2MB)
• ​Harvest plan map Block K004C3XK (PDF, 757KB)

Other documents:

• 2020 BCTS operations update (PDF, 251KB)
• Snowden guiding principles (PDF, 322KB)
• Appendix 1 Snowden Advisory Group terms of reference (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Appendix 2 Snowden recreation sensitivity map (PDF, 1.9MB)
• Appendix 3 Snowden Advisory Group values map (PDF, 808KB)
• Appendix 4 Snowden BCTS long term plan (PDF, 653KB)
• Snowden trail map (PDF,1.6MB)

No updates or information releases at this time.