Operations Update February 2024
Tree planting and road building will take place in March 2024 in the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Lake Area of the community forest. See the latest post on the main page for details.
Operations Update November 26, 2022
Construction of the new access road into the Gorge Harbour/Anvil Lake Area of the community forest is now completed. Log hauling is taking place this weekend, and the area will be open for people to come and collect firewood with a free use permit on Saturday Dec 3, weather permitting.
Operations Update October 2022
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
Operations Update January 2022.
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 late 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 coming in and open. There will also be a significant amount of firewood 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 that three individuals completed their training, while the fourth is approximately half way 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 whereby in the spring the affected area will be re-planted with White Pine and Western Red Cedar, and with a small component of Douglas Fir in the least affected area.
For maps of the area see the links below:
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 all 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.
Upcoming Operations Fall 2020
Logging is projected to get under way during the week of September 28 at block CAR1. The plan is to harvest approximately 625 m3 or 16 logging truck loads for local mills, along with approximately 150 m3 of smaller and lower grade fire wood logs for the local market.
Block CAR1 is approximately 6.9 Hectares in size and will be harvested using an intermediate harvest system, with a goal of retaining a minimum 45 square meters of basal area per hectare. On average, the project will remove approximately 150 m3 of co-dominant stems per hectare, along with low grade stems that would be unlikely to thrive post thinning.
A map of block CAR1 is available here:
CAR1 Base Map 2020Jul23 DRAFT
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Additional maps that shows the wider area around block CAR1 are available here:
CFGP 5 Year Plan CAR & GM1 Sept 11-2017
Drainage crossing assessment:
Assessment of Road drainage crossing Carrington Area development Aug_2017-signed
Ministry of Environment Sensitive Ecosystem Inventory – CFA Overlay:
Cortes ComFor SEI Loe Res Map 20171129