There are small Cedar logs from 3″ – 11″ in diameter and 8′ up to 26′ long available for sale in the community forest. Ideal for a large pole barns, woodsheds, or fencing projects, there is a fairly a large selection to choose from. Contact Mark Lombard for details at misterlombard@gmail.com.

Wildfire risk reduction (WRR) work will be getting under way in the Coulter Bay and Squirrel Cove areas of the community forest starting in October. See the previous post on this web page for details. There will be woodchips and firewood available over the winder from both projects and details will be posted once the projects are nearing completion.

There will be public tours of both sites of the risk reduction projects in October, as well as in areas where plans are being developed for shelterwood (selective) harvests in the Coulter Bay and Larsens Meadow Areas.

9:30am Sunday October 6, Coulter Bay Logging Road – 2024 Wildfire Risk Reduction and 2025 shelterwood harvest plans

9:30am Saturday October 12, Squirrel Cove Logging Road at Yellow Gate – 2024 wildfire risk reduction project

9:30am Saturday October 19, Larsens Meadow Road – 2025 Shelterwood Harvest Plans and Future wildfire risk reduction project.

No plans harvest plans have been finalized or laid out as of yet and are still open to ongoing public input, and no time frame has been established but will be based on weather and log market conditions.

The Cortes Community Forest Cooperative (CCFC) will host its annual general meeting on October 9 at 7pm at Mansons Hall. The CCFC is a 50 percent partner in the Cortes Forestry General Partnership which along with the Klaboose First Nation holds the license for the Cortes Island Community Forest.

The CFGP is planning to complete two wildfire risk reduction projects in the Community Forest starting in October of this year and expect the work to be completed by March 2025.

The first project is to removed the small dead stems and small Hemlock under 6″ in diameter in the area along the western boundary of the community forest in the Coulter Bay Neighbourhood. The area is 150 wide and comprises 9.8 hectares. The fine fuels will also be removed either by chipping , or by burning where chipping isn’t accessible. All the remaining stems will also be pruned up to 3 meters in order to remove the ladder fuels.

The second project is in the Squirrel Cover Area of the community forest, in the overgrown 3rd growth plantation along both sides of the logging road starting approximately 500 meters from the main road. The treatment will be the same, primarily targeting the small dead and dying hemlock that have overgrown the planted Fir and Cedar.

The two projects have been identified as priorities in the 2020 Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and prescriptions were completed for those projects in 2021. The prescriptions are available here:

CARRINGTON FMP Prescription 2021_DRAFT__AUG25_2021

SQUIRREL COVE FMP Prescription 2021_DRAFT__AUG25_2021

For more information any time, contact Mark Lombard at misterlombard@gmail.com

The CFGP will host a public meeting on Thursday May 30, 2024 from 6:30 – 8:30 at the Gorge Hall. This will be an opportunity to hear about activities in the community forest over the past year, as well as plans for the upcoming five year period.

Cortes Fire Chief Eli McKenty will start the meeting with a short presentation on his takeaways from the Wildfire Resiliency and Training Summit he attended in Prince George in April.

The meeting will provide an opportunity for people to ask questions and have a discussion about the Community Forest and its work on the island.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Please visit the most recent news and updates as well as documents and maps pages for a detailed description of the planning currently under way in the community forest. There is also a link here for the most recent five year planning map:

THLB Overview map 2017-2022 & 2024 – 2028v2

The community forest will host a community firewood day on Saturday May 11 starting at 10am.

If you know a senior or someone else in need, please contact Mark Lombard by email at misterlombard@gmail.com to add their name to the list for a free pickup load of firewood.

If you would like to volunteer a pickup truck to make deliveries or if you would like to come out and help load, please contact Mark to add your name to the list. All volunteers will get a load of firewood as well.

The meeting place will be at the community forest logging road across and just down from the Main Road highway maintenance yard at 10:00 am, May 11.

The CFGP will host a public meeting on Thursday May 30, 2024 from 6:30 – 8:30 at the Gorge Hall. This will be an opportunity to hear about activities in the community forest over the past year, as well as plans for the upcoming five year period. The meeting will also be an opportunity for people to ask questions and have a discussion.

Road building work in the Gorge Harbour Area of the community forest is now completed and the saw logs have been delivered to local mills. There will be a community firewood day sometime in May to distribute the firewood from the project to seniors and people in need. Stay tuned for more details once a date is confirmed.

There will be a public tour in the Green Mountain Area of the community forest on Saturday April 20 from 10am – noon, meeting at the entrance to Green Mountain Road. For a map of that shows this area, along with all areas under consideration for harvest activities over the next five years click here:

THLB Overview map DRAFT 2024 – 2028e.

Spring tree planting and silviculture work will get under way in the community forest around mid-March. Block GH1 that was harvested as a firebreak in the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Lake Area during spring of 2023 will be planted, along with some fill planting in blocks GM1 & VON1. All of the seedlings that have been planted to date will also be tended.

Prior to planting block GH1 the road will be decommissioned and the leftover coarse woody debris along the road will be spread out and cleaned up. The rock from the road surface will be recycled further up the main road.

A second leg of road building in the area is planned for early 2024 continuing on from the first leg that was completed in the fall of 2022. This second leg of road is the next step in the plan to build road access and implement a wildfire mitigation treatment for the area as indicated a priority in the 2020 Community Wildfire Protection plan. The second leg of road that will be built in early 2024 is shown in grey on the following map:

GH Mainline Road Construction Map 20220907

This second leg of road will end just north of the wetland and will include a turnaround suitable for fire trucks and is the only activity planned in the area for the next couple of years. The community forest has orders from local mill for sawlogs this spring and all the higher quality logs from the road building will go to supply those order, while the lower grade logs will go into firewood for a spring community firewood day.

In the longer term, the draft plan is to eventually plant Alder at the western end of the wetland in an area infected with mistletoe Hemlock in order to create a second firebreak. The basic idea is to take advantage of the opening created by the wetland, and plant a deciduous Alder patch that will together act as a natural firebreak.

That project is only in the conceptual phase at this point, and would take place at some point a few years in the future. No date has been set for that project and there will be time for further community input. See the map below for details of the area under consideration, shown as block GH2:

GH1_GH2 Overview 20221206

Five Year Plan Next Steps:

The CFGP is planning to host three public tours in areas currently under consideration for harvest operations in the upcoming five year plan. In order of priority, the Larsens Meadow Project will be first as there is a directive from the province to let in more light to the areas harvested in 2015 in order for the seedlings to reach free to grow status. This project will likely take place in early 2025, with the potential for some road work in the fall of this year.

After Larsens Meadow, the next harvest priority will likely be in the Carrington Coulter Bay Area given that the area is a priority for wildfire mitigation treatment in the Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and the harvest will tie in with the proposed treatment.

The third tour will be be in the Green Mountain Area as it a new area under consideration for operations, although the harvest in that area will likely be a bit later in the next five year cycle.

Saturday March 23 at 10am @Larsens Meadow – meet on Larsens Meadow Road
Saturday March 30 at 10am @ Coulter Bay – meet at the entrance to the new community forest road in Coulter Bay.
Saturday April 20 at 10am @ Green Mountain – meet at Green Mountain Road

The map below shows these and the other two areas under consideration for harvesting in the next five year cycle:
THLB Overview map DRAFT 2024 – 2028

Once these initial public tours are completed, the CFGP will host a public meeting to discuss ongoing planning, operations, and next steps, likely in May.

Regarding the five year plan, the operations planning map above is the primary 5 year plan going forward. More details will be incorporated following input from the upcoming public tours, and detailed engineering will be completed for each area as the time comes to work on each project. The GFGP does not expect that the detailed engineering will be significantly different than the areas shown in the projection, given that the planning is focused on staying away from sensitive areas and designed to allow for selective harvesting systems.

The CFGP is continuing work on implementing the recommendations from the 2020 Community Wildfire Protection Plan specific to areas within the Community Forest Landbase. See the map below for details:

Those recommendations include building road access to specific areas crossing the community forest, along with thinning along the western boundary in the Carringto/Coulter Bay Area and in the overgrown 3rd growth blocks in the Squirrel Cove Area of the Community Forest. The prescriptions for these are available here:

CarrHi_Boundary
CARRINGTON FMP Prescription 2021_DRAFT__AUG25_2021
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SQUIRREL COVE FMP Prescription 2021_DRAFT__AUG25_2021

A thinning project in the area surrounding the area surrounding the recylcing center was completed in March 2022. The map of the area is available here:

RecyHi_Boundary
RECYCLING FMP Prescription 2021_DRAFT

The plan also calls for a fire break in the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Lake area, which was partially completed in 2022 & 2023 by building initial road access in the area, and harvesting the small fire break called block GH1.

Futher road building in the area is planned for early 2024 in order to gain access, and eventually plant Alder at the western end of the wetland to the south of block GH1 in an area infected with mistletoe Hemlock. That project would take place sometime in the future and the area is shown on the maps below as block GH2.
The first map shows the next length of road to be built in early 2024, and the second map shows block GH1 which was harvested in 2023 and block GH2 which is under consideration to be planted in Alder at some as of yet undetermined time in the future.

GH Mainline Road Construction Map 20220907

GH1_GH2 Overview 20221206

Some of the wildfire risk reduction treatment work in the Carrington Bay/Carrington and Squirrel Cove Areas may be completed concurrently with harvesting in those areas as per the five year plan, depending on funding availability,

In the fall of 2022 a team from the Mother Tree Network completed a field study of each of the harvests to date in the Cortes Community Forest. Led by Dr. Suzanne Simard, forest ecology professor at the University of British Columbia, the Mother Tree Project brings together academia, government, forestry companies, research forests, community forests and First Nations to identify and design successful forest renewal practices.

The study objective was to examine how recent harvesting systems as well as older clearcutting and planting have affected tree carbon stocks, forest structure, regeneration, understory plant communities, and the forest floor. The draft report on the study is available here:

Cortes_report_june2_2023

The community forest is continuing to work with the Mother Tree Network on the harvest plans for the upcoming five year plan. Stay tuned for opportunities to hear about this ongoing collaboration, likely later on in the fall of 2023.

The CFGP will host a public meeting on Thursday May 11, 2023 at 6:30 pm at the Klahoose Multipurpose Hall to launch the public consultation process for updating the five year.

There will be an overview of the activities in the community forest over the past five years, followed by a presentation and discussion of the plans under consideration for the upcoming five years.

A preliminary map showing the areas under consideration for operations over the next five years is available here:

THLB Overview map DRAFT 2024 – 2028

This map is not a final plan and areas may be added or removed based on ongoing discussion with the board and the public. The purple areas are the areas under consideration and the blue area is the a back up location in the event that other areas don’t work out. The map does not contain detailed engineering as it intended to simply show areas under consideration. In addition, more detailed conversations will be held with neighbours in each of the areas under consideration prior to more detailed planning.

Work on the firebreak in the Gorge Harbour Area of the Community Forest is now completed and the area remains open for people to go out and collect free firewood for personal in the block. The location is up the new logging road across and just down from the highway shed on Gorge Harbour Road.

The firewood is free and people are allowed two average size pickup loads per household.

Please do not buck up any downed trees along the road and only take wood that is at roadside in the block.

There is a small about of wood already bucked into rounds that would be available for people without a chainsaw, but the majority of the wood is full length at roadside and needs to be bucked.

If you don’t have a chainsaw or pickup you can organize with someone else to go and collect a load or two.

Provincial regulations require that people download and fill out a free use permit and simply keep it in the truck that is hauling your wood. Free use permits are available here:

FreeUsePermit April & May 2023 GH1

NOTE: Older drafts of the free use permits may be old, if you’ve already downloaded one but just cross out the date and write in the new one.

As part of the process to revise the five year plan for the community forest, the CFGP has been working to update some of the community forest maps, which are available below.

These new maps show all of the latest ministry data which will be used by CFGP staff to plan the next five years of operations in the community forest. The CFGP is open to feedback from the public at any time during the five year plan review, with early feedback welcomed as it can help inform the planning process going forward.

Cortes CF Overview Map:

THLB Overview map DRAFT 20230303

The community forest overview map shows the contributing and non-contributing areas of the community forest landbase in green and brown. Green (contributing) means that there are no legal constraints to harvesting or for the purpose of calculating AAC, and the brown (non-contributing) represents sensitive areas that are excluded for the purpose of calculating AAC, and would typically not see any harvesting.

This revised Overview Map also shows the following new data layers:

– priority old growth deferral and big tree old growth recruitment areas (red and yellow cross hatch),
– legal old growth management areas (OGMA) (pink),
– new roads & CFGP harvested blocks 2015-current (yellow)
– original projected area for VON2 (brown)

The OGMAs reflect old growth areas that are permanently protected. The priority old growth deferral areas are temporary deferrals and not yet legally binding.

Cortes CFA with SEI overlay:

Cortes ComFor SEI Map 20230303 small

The sensitive ecosystem inventory (SEI) overlay map shows the 2011 Ministry of Environment data overlaid with the community forest area, along with the same new data layers:

– priority old growth deferral and recruitment areas (red and yellow cross hatch),
– legal OGMAs (pink),
– new roads & CFGP harvested blocks 2015-current (yellow)
– original projected area for VON2 (brown)

The SEI map data is based on air photo interpretation and is not always accurate on the ground, therefore it is for information purposes only.

There is also a new map that shows potential age-class related Marbled Murrelet and Northern Goshawk habitat on the island along the same new data layers:

THLB Overview map with birds 20230303

The crews working on block GH1 along the new community forest road across from the highway shed are making good progress and the project is nearly completed. Log hauling is expected to take place around mid-march, after which there will be an opportunity for people to collect firewood for personal use with free use permits.

Stand tending in the Squirrel Cove and Larsens Meadow areas of the community forest is set to get under way as soon as the snow melts. The crew will be checking on each of the planted seedlings to make sure they are growing well and straight. The deer love to rub on the stems of the new seedlings and push over the protective cones, and because of the small size of the blocks and density of leave trees, many of the seedlings are growing relatively slowly need to be protected from completing vegetation.

The community forest is looking for people interested in silviculture (stand tending) work in the community forest starting in late February & March.

The silviculture work will consist of tending to the seedlings planted in various areas of the community forest over the past several years, and will include cone tending and removal, clearing bracken, etc.

The community forest is also looking for a contractor to complete a brushing project that will involve bucking fallen logs and removing small saplings along existing logging roads that require maintenance. The brushing project will also get under way in late February or early March.

Interested parties can contact Mark Lombard via email at misterlombard@gmail.com

The new faller training at block GH1 in the community forest is under way. There are three Cortes Island residents and one member of the Tla’amin First Nation participating in the training, which is expected to wrap up around the end of February or early March

The new faller training and harvest at block GH1 is part of a wider set of wildfire mitigation plans for the community forest contained in the 2020 Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

Once the falling is completed the logs will be yarded to roadside. As soon as the merchantable timber logs are hauled there will be an opportunity for people to come out and collect firewood with free use permits.

Before replanting the block, the road will be removed and coarse woody debris will be be placed parallel to the the contour lines to hold moisture in the soil. The gravel removed from the running surface will be reused further up the main road once it is constructed.

As part of the current project, approximately 75 meters of additional right of way for the main road will be felled so the logs can go out at the same time as the rest of the project, and the recycled gravel will have a place to go when the time comes.

Startup for the project at block GH1 in the Gorge Harbour Area of the community forest is set for Feb 1, 2023. The project will provide a new faller training opportunity for three Cortes Island residents, and is part of a wider wildfire mitigation strategy for the area. See previous posting for more details.

The site is 1.3 hectares, approximately 90 percent Hemlock and 10 percent Fir, along with the occasional Red Cedar. The plan is to leave some of the better quality Douglas Fir most likely to survive, spaced every 20 – 30 meters, and harvest the Hemlock and lower grade Fir.

Once the project is completed the road will be decommissioned and pulled up, and the area will be replanted.

There will be an opportunity for people to come out and collect firewood for personal use once the project is completed, likely later in March. This page will be updated regularly as the project progresses.

A map of the area is available here: GH1 Site Plan Map 20230124

For more information on safety and communications, the CFGP Safe Work Policies and Procedures document is available here: Safe Work Policy for Public Notification Jan 2023

The CFGP is proposing to harvest block GH1 in the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Area in early 2023.

The site is 1.3 hectares, approximately 90 percent Hemlock and 10 percent Fir, along with the occasional Red Cedar. The plan is to leave some of the better quality Douglas Fir most likely to survive, spaced every 20 – 30 meters, and harvest the Hemlock and lower grade Fir.

See a map of the proposed block here:Blocks GH1, GH2 Overview Map_Gorge Harbour 20221206

Note, on the map there is a second block shown (Block GH2) being considered as part of a wider wildfire mitigation plan for the area. Only Block GH1 is the only harvest under consideration at this time.

Block GH1, along with the new road built in 2022 to access the area, are part of a wider CFGP plan to implement wildfire mitigations in this area in response to the recommendations contained in the 2020 Cortes Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

The CWPP did not contain a detailed prescription for mitigation measures this area, except to note that as it would be a likely corridor for wildfires to spread between the Mansons Landing and Gorge Harbour neighbourhoods.

While block GH1 is too small to stop a large fire, the overall access would allow wildland fire crews to operate in the area should the need arise.

Please send feedback to Ione Brown by email at ibhecate@gmail.com or Mark Lombard at misterlombard@gmail.com

The CFGP will host an open house at Mansons Hall on Wednesday December 7, at 6:30 pm. The purpose of the open house is to host a conversation on activities in the Community Forest to date, begin discussions of the upcoming revised 5-year plan, and in particular the harvest activities under consideration in the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Lake, Carrington/Coulter Bay, and Von Donop Areas of the Community Forest.

To join over Zoom contact Ione Brown via email at ibhecate@gmail.com, or Mark Lombard at misterlombard@gmail.com

Note: Due to the snowy conditions the free use permit firewood day has been postponed. Stay tuned for a new date, likely in early 2023.

CHANGE OF DATE: DEC 3 – Log hauling will be taking place on Saturday & Sunday Nov 26 – 27, therefore the free use firewood permit date will now be Dec 3.

Road building work on the new logging road in the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Lake Area of the community forest is now completed.

Come out and collect your own firewood along the new road on Saturday Dec 3 starting at 9am. There is a bit of wood that is already bucked and some that still needs to be bucked.

The location of the new logging road is across and just down from the Main Road Highway Shed. The gate will open at 9am.

In order to collect some free firewood, the regulations require that you download and fill out a free use permit, which is available here. FreeUsePermit Dec 3 2022 GH Main

You don’t need to send in the permit, just have it filled in in the vehicle that is designated to transport your firewood.

Work on the new road in the community forest across from the highway shed has resumed now that the rains have started. The new road is called Gorge Harbour Main and construction is expected to be completed around by the second week of November.

There will be a community firewood day along the new road on Saturday Nov 12, starting at 9am. The community firewood day will work the same as it has in previous years where volunteers come out and help to deliver pickup loads of firewood to seniors or other people in the community who are in need.

If you know of someone who is in need and could use a free load of firewood, please contact Mark Lombard by email at misterlombard@gmail.com.

To make the community firewood day work, we need volunteers with pickups to come out and help to make the deliveries. We also need volunteers to come out and help load the pickups. All the volunteers will receive a free load of firewood. If you would like to volunteer please contact Mark as well.

The firewood logs for the firewood day are from the trees that were recently cut for the road building and are therefore still green and not suitable for burning this winter. There is also a chance we will need some help with bucking the firewood, so if anyone with chainsaw experience would like to help with the bucking please contact Mark as well.

In other news, the wildfire mitigation project around the recycling centre is also set to get under way this month. Look for a notice on the Tideline for and exact start up date in the coming weeks.

Due to the dry conditions and extreme wildfire risk, most operations in the community forest have recently been on pause. Now that the rains have arrived, two wildfire access/mitigations projects will resume as previously announced.

The first project, the new road construction across from the MainRoad highway shed will resume this week. There will be a level one chainsaw course taking place on site this week along with road sub-grade construction and gravel capping. See the site plan map for the new road construction here. GH Mainline Road Construction Map 20220907

Once operations resume and the project is close to completion, there will be a date announced for a community firewood day along the new road. In the meantime if you or anyone you know is either a senior, or someone else in a lower income situation who is in need of a pickup load of free firewood, contact Operations Manager Mark Lombard at misterlombard@gmail.com to get your name on the list.

We will also be looking for volunteers to help load, as well as pickups to haul the loads. All the volunteers will also get a free pickup load of firewood.

The second project is the wildfire mitigation project in the area surrounding the recycling centre. This project will consist of thinning out the forest canopy and removing fuels so as to help contain any fire that could break out at the recycling centre. See the site plan map for the recycling centre thinning project here. RECYCLING FMP Prescription 2021

Both of these project are based on the recommendations from the 2020 Cortes Community Wildfire Protection Plan, which is available here. 2020_Cortes_CWPP_FINAL

Road building operations are getting under way in the area of the community forest between Thunder Road and Gorge Harbour Road, and are expected last approximately six weeks. The community forest has heard extensive feedback from the community regarding the proposed wildfire mitigation and selective logging being planned in the area, and that discussion will be ongoing.

In the interim only the first portion of the proposed road will be built, approximately 580 meters. You can see the revised map here: GH Mainline Road Construction Map 20220907.

There has been a lot of misinformation being circulated by a small group who are opposed to the project, but to be clear, the community forest is not logging any old growth or close to any wetlands.

The CFGP will host a neighbourhood meeting in the Anvil Lake Area of the community forest on Saturday August 13, 2022 at 10am to discuss the proposed new road into the area. Representatives of the Klahoose First Nation and Community Forest Coop will be present.

For anyone unable to walk the route we can have a full discussion before hand and address concerns up front before starting the walk. We will meet in front of the old culverts beside the Main Road highway shed.

If you have any questions, contact Georgina Silby at 202 256-0915. There is limited cell reception at the site.

See the map below showing the proposed new road location for the Anvil Lake Operating Area. Planning for a harvest in the area is ongoing and will not be finalized until the late fall of this year, pending ongoing mapping by staff along with input from the public and discussion with neighbours in the area. The earliest that harvesting would get under way is February of 2023, and the timing will be based on a range of factors including market conditions.

In the meantime, road work is planned to commence in the fall once the wildfire risk is over while conditions are dry to minimize impact and give the road time to set up over the winter before being used. The proposed road location was selected  to minimizing the impact on sensitive areas, provide safe turning and tie in with the public road, and working with the geography in the area in order to minimize the overall impact while respecting the neighbours in the area.

At this point the proposed road location is just a draft as consultations with neighbours are ongoing.

Anvil Lake Proposed Road Draft August 2023

See the Operations Plan map below for a larger perspective of the area. Note that all areas in green are part of the operable timber harvesting landbase,  approximately 66 percent of the community forest area. The areas in pink are netted out as sensitive areas.

Cortes ComFor Operation Plan Map 20171201

This map shows the same data but with net down areas colour coded for various types.

Cortes CFA Application Area

You can also look at the area of the new road with the backdrop of the sensitive ecosystem map:

Cortes ComFor SEI Low Res Map 20171201

Note change of date from June 11 to Saturday June 18.

The CFGP will host the first public tour in the Anvil Lake Area of the community forest to share plans and seek public input regarding upcoming wildfire mitigation and harvest activities in the area. The tour will start at 10am on June 18, leaving from the parking area beside the old large culverts adjacent to the Main Road highway shed.

Bring suitable footwear and layers for walking in the forest along with water and snacks. The tour will last approximately 2.5 – 3 hours. See the map below for details of the area under consideration.

CFGP Operating Plans 2022 Overview Map Dec 2021 (1)

The Cortes Forestry General Partnership will hold a public meeting over Zoom on May 14 at 11am. The public meeting is an opportunity to provide an overview of what has happened in the community forest over the past year and discuss plans for the future. All are welcome. To join the meeting use the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88980575290

There are no operations under way in the community forest at this time. Tree planting is completed in block VON1, along tending all the seedlings planted in community forest to date. Firewood is still available through a commercial firewood contractor, contact cortesrootcrew@gmail.com for details.

For more information on past projects and planning for future operations visit the news and documents pages on this site.

The spring silviculture season is approaching and it’s time to tend the seedlings and do some planting. Anyone interested in silviculture work contact can contact Mark for details at misterlombard@gmail.com

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The community forest is currently taking orders from local mills for Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Western Red Cedar, and White Pine saw  logs.  To purchase saw logs contact Mark Lombard at misterlombard@gmail.com

Lower grade logs from the community forest will be available for sale to firewood contractors by the logging truck load. Loads would go to their site for processing, likely around the end of February once the merch logs have been hauled. Interested contractors can contact Mark for details.

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The firewood contractors currently working in the community forest are all Work Safe insured, and participated in the recent training programs in the community forest including new faller training, OFA 3, and S100 which took place in 2021.

The CFGP is planning to implement a number of wildfire mitigation projects over the next couple of years and will be seeking public input in early 2022. Wildfire mitigation, or so called fuel modification projects, typically involve a mix of thinning the forest to reduce the amount of dry flammable fuels available to burn, and to increase the diversity of ages and stand types within a forested area.

Over the past several years, the CFGP has been working with partners to evaluate options for investing in wildfire preparedness on the island. As part of the revised Community Wildfire Protection Plan, several areas have been identified on the island that would benefit from some form of fuel modification treatment. See the revised plan (map on pp 91) for details:

2020_Cortes_CWPP

The areas identified for treatment have been ranked in order of priority based on a number of factors including fuel loads, proximity to residential neighbourhoods and critical infrastructure.

There are four areas within the community forest that have been identified as priority areas for treatment. These include the area between the highway maintenance shed and Anvil Lake, the area east of the residential neighbourhood in Coulter Bay, the area surrounding the recycling centre, and along the community forest logging road in Squirrel Cove.

See maps below for details:

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CFGP Operating Plans 2022 Overview Map Dec 2021

In the past year prescriptions have been prepared by wildfire planning professionals for three of these areas, along with a Traditional Use Assessment (TUS) by the Tla’amin First Nation.  The prescriptions completed to date are available below, and the TUA final report is expected shortly.

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CARRINGTON FMP Prescription 2021_DRAFT__AUG25_2021

Much of the planning work described above was completed with grant funding received through the Union of BC Municipalities and administered by Shaun Koopman at the SRD. Many thanks to Shaun for helping make this work possible.

At this point it is likely that the treatments around the recycling centre and in Squirrel Cove will also be funded through the same mechanism, which comes with a number of limitations including that all the useable wood is to go out as free firewood available to be collected at roadside. The prescriptions in these two areas are primarily comprised of removing the dead trees and lower grade small stems that are likely do die soon and become dry fuel.

The treatments in the CAR and Anvil Lake areas will be designed and and funded by the CFGP as they will involve harvesting merchantable timber that will be sold as with a typical harvest. The CFGP would like the invite the public to provide input as part of the planning for each of these areas. Public consultation notices will be sent to neighbours in each of these areas, and will be posted on the tideline in the next few weeks.

The CAR prescription as described above primarily involves thinning the forest and removing the fuels on the forest floor. The prescription for the the Anvil Lake area is not yet completed but in most of the area will be similar to the CAR prescription above.

An additional component in the Anvil Lake treatment area will involve removing several areas of dead and dying mistletoe Hemlock and may include planting Alder on appropriate sites, as deciduous forest canopies are considered a natural fire break for low to medium density canopy fires.

Access to each of the areas except the Anvil Lake treatment area has already been developed. There are two possible access routes for the Anvil Lake area, and a decision on access will be made once the public consultation has been completed.

The CFGP has had to make some changes to the 5 year plan from 2017 for a number of reasons, and this wildfire mitigation work is being moved forward as a result. The harvest at block VON2 is still part of the plan for the next five years (see the CFGP Operating Plans 2o22 map above) but access to the area has not been finalized and therefore a timeline has not been established for this project. The current plan for block VON2 is an intermediate harvest (thinning), similar to the 2020 harvest in block CAR1.

A timeline of projects is being worked on and will be posted in the coming weeks.

Operations in block VON1 of the Von Donop Area of the Community Forest are nearing completion and log hauling is expected to get under way near the end of January. This is the second and final phase of the project after the first barge load of logs that went out in November. The barge load contained just over 2,200 m3 and the second phase of the project is expected to come in around 4,000 m3.

There have been several loads purchased by local mills and orders are still open. There will also be a significant amount of firewood from the project that will be available for purchase from local firewood contractors from the project.

The project was designed as a new faller training for Cortes Island residents and the CFGP is pleased to announce that three individuals completed their training and got their falling ticket, and a fourth is approximately half way though and will finish on a future project.

Due to a number of factors, including extensive root rot in the area, the prescription for the block is even age management and in the spring the worst affected areas will be re-planted with White Pine and Western Red Cedar, and with a small component of Douglas Fir in the least affected areas.

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Cortes Comfor 5year Plan 20180202 Map_1

Blk VON1 Site Plan Map May 2021

There is no road access to this area of the Community Forest that is open to public use as the location is adjacent to private lands and the Klahoose First Nation Reserve. As such there will be no public access for firewood to this area, and the majority of the firewood will be sold by logging truck load to contractors at the end of the project. A small amount is also being processed on site as the project nears completion.

Block CAR1 of the community forest will be open to free use permit holders to cut up to 2 pickup loads of firewood for personal use on Saturday July 17 and Sunday July 18.

You can download a free use permit here:FreeUsePermit2021 CAR1

Block CAR1 is accessed via the new logging road off Coulter Bay Road, just past the parking area for the Carrington Trailhead. The opening will be from 7 am – 3pm each day, and chainsaw use will stop at 2 pm due to wildfire risk.

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If you do not have a truck you can make arrangements with someone with a pickup to go out and collect your wood for you, and either come along or give them your permit.