Note: All projects are subject to an environmental assessment. As well, potential employees for any of these projects should contact the recipients of the program funding directly for information.
Cariboo:
Blackwell & Assoc. on behalf of the Western Silviculture Contractor's Association: 16 workers will be employed conducting rehabilitation of repressed pine by reducing the stand density through manual spacing using brush saws in the Williams Lake, Alexis Creek, Redstone, and Tatla Lake areas.
Federal Funding: $503, 986
Provincial Funding: $271,377
Total Funding: $775,363
Prince George Woodlot Association: This project will employ 11 workers to conduct girdling or snapping of deciduous stems to release conifers, spacing, and hand fertilizing in the Prince George, Hixon, Summit Lake, and Norman Lake areas.
Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000
The Barkerville Heritage Trust: Seven workers will complete cutting and burning to mitigate fire hazard in Wells and Quesnel.
Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000
J. Hinsche Contracting Ltd.: To improve safety and visibility alongside 143 kilometres of road in Williams Lake, 23 workers will cut down trees that are less than 15 cm along highway corridors, and drag the slash to the roadside for chipping.
Federal Funding: $162,104
Provincial Funding: $87,286
Total Funding: $249,390
LTN Contracting Ltd.: Twelve employees will be working in the treatment of 24 hectares, adjacent to homes in Prince George, by thinning, spacing, pruning, cutting, chipping, and burning ladder fuels to reduce the fire hazard through fuel management.
Federal Funding: $162,258
Provincial Funding: $87,370
Total Funding: $249,628
Quesnel Woodlot Association: Seven workers will reduce the immediate and longer term fuel loading in interface areas in Quesnel by cutting, piling and burning standing and downed debris and pruning the lower pole of live trees.
Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000
South Cariboo Ventures Ltd.: In this project, 13 workers will be developing a network of fuel management treatment areas in the Deka Lake area by clearing and spacing of understories, piling and disposing of ground fuels, and removing standing dead trees. The project will also address overgrown forestry roads by brushing and falling danger trees to mitigate fire hazards..
Federal Funding: $153,725
Provincial Funding: $82,775
Total Funding: $236,500
Tsay Keh Dene Band: Through this project, 23 employees will work on trees in Tsay Keh Dene and Prince George areas to fell, buck, and pile the trees through the completion of fuel management work activities. Access routes will also be hand felled, piled and burned in order to mitigate fire hazard in the communities.
Federal Funding: $153,009
Provincial Funding: $82,389
Total Funding: $235,398
Arcturus Enterprises: Seven workers will manually brush trails, falling dead and infected pine beetle trees, limbing, slashing, burning or scattering in Tatla Lake, Redstone, and Puntzi Lake.
Federal Funding: $93, 150
Provincial Funding: $50,157
Total Funding: $143,307
District of Mackenzie: This project will employ 24 workers to fall, chip and burn beetle infected trees in Mackenzie.
Federal Funding: $162,380
Provincial Funding: $87,436
Total Funding: $249,816
Avison Management Services Ltd.: Six workers will conduct danger tree assessment and removal, brushing aspen and alder and disposing of debris over 200 hectares, located 70 kms south of Vanderhoof at the site of the 2006 Kenny Dam fire.
Federal Funding: $150,709
Provincial Funding: $81,151
Total Funding: $231,860
L.C.R. Holdings Ltd.: Eight workers will be employed for brushing, weeding, spacing, and pruning in Valemount.
Federal Funding: $162, 488
Provincial Funding: $87,493
Total Funding: $249,981
L.C.R. Holdings Ltd.: Eight workers will be employed for brushing, weeding, spacing, and pruning in McBride.
Federal Funding: $162, 360
Provincial Funding: $87,424
Total Funding: $249,784
Village of Valemount: Five workers will be employed to remove pine beetle trees, as well as thinning, pruning, remove brush, deadfall, chip and scatter in Valemount.
Federal Funding: $54,139
Provincial Funding: $28,537
Total Funding: $82,676
Alexis Creek Indian Band: Eight workers will be employed in the identification of moderate to high fuel hazard on reserve and adjacent lands, with fuel management treatment to follow by removing ground fuels and standing dead timber. Remaining live trees will be thinned and pruned with debris piled and burned or used as firewood.
Federal Funding: $161,928
Provincial Funding: $87,192
Total Funding: $249,120
Kootenay:
Town of Creston: Eight workers will be employed in manual thinning, pruning, and surface fuel reduction in Creston.
Federal Funding: $66,417
Provincial Funding: $35,763
Total Funding: $102,180
Nupqu Development Corporation: This project will employ 10 workers for cutting, piling and burning small diameter stems to reduce the fuel load and reduce the fire hazard of overstocked stands within two kilometres of the community boundaries of St. Mary's Band, City of Cranbrook, Canadian Rockies International Airport, and the Tobacco Plains Reservation.
Federal Funding: $162,499
Provincial Funding: $87,499
Total Funding: $249,998
Purcell Resources Inc.: Eight workers will be employed in this project, which will include slashing, brushing, and spacing of overstocked stands in Cranbrook.
Federal Funding: $161,637
Provincial Funding: $87,035
Total Funding: $248,672
Big Red Cats Cat Skiing: Three workers will conduct manual brushing and thinning in Rossland, Trail, and Castlegar.
Federal Funding: $38,259
Provincial Funding: $20,601
Total Funding: $58,860
Haynes Contracting: This project will employ four workers for slashing, fence reparation, danger tree removal, and clearing of over 50 kilometres in Midway, Greenwood, Rock Creek, Westbridge, and Beaverdell.
Federal Funding: $87,435
Provincial Funding: $47,081
Total Funding: $134,516
Ridgeline Resource Consulting: Ten workers will conduct 181 hectares of manual thinning, removing and piling of stems in Baynes Lake. Live trees will be pruned to reduce ladder fuels, and grind piled slash for hog fuel will be used at the local cogeneration plant.
Federal Funding: $151,939
Provincial Funding: $81,814
Total Funding: $233,753
International Forest Products: Ten workers will be employed in pruning in Nakusp.
Federal Funding: $34,287
Provincial Funding: $18,160
Total Funding: $52,447
Thompson-Okanagan:
3D Forestry Ltd.: Seven workers will be employed for spacing, thinning, pruning, piling and burning in Kamloops.
Federal Funding: $161,522
Provincial Funding: $86,973
Total Funding: $248,495
District of Clearwater: This project will employ three workers for removal of dead and dying trees, thinning and pruning, and removal of flammable materials in Clearwater.
Federal Funding: $20,312
Provincial Funding: $10,938
Total Funding: $31,250
Regional District of Central Okanagan /Parks Services: Ten workers will be employed for tree thinning, pruning, and the removal of infested trees, heavy loads of pine needles and other fine fuels in Kelowna and West Kelowna. The project will also include trail upgrades to allow crews access to facilitate the fuel management works.
Federal Funding: $162,233
Provincial Funding: $87,357
Total Funding: $249,590
The Corporation of the Village of Lytton: Eight workers will be doing fuel management on 35 hectares of crown and municipal land to the south of Lytton to reduce the wildfire risk through stemming, limbing, pruning, and burning.
Federal Funding: $162,405
Provincial Funding: $87,449
Total Funding: $249,854
Nicola Similkameen Innovative Forestry Society: Eight workers will conduct stand thinning, tree pruning, debris piling and burning, grass seeding, danger tree assessments, quality control inspections and effectiveness monitoring in Merritt.
Federal Funding: $150, 300
Provincial Funding: $80,930
Total Funding: $231,230
Nooaitch Indian Band: This project will employ six workers to thin, space, prune, cut, chip, and burn woody debris and living ladder fuels to reduce forest fire hazard around the Nooaitch community, west of Merritt.
Federal Funding: $162,487
Provincial Funding: $87,493
Total Funding: $249,980
Splatsin First Nation: This project will employ 24 workers for projects in Enderby and Sicamous to include fuel load reduction, brushing to mitigate fire hazard, falling and removal of danger trees, trail maintenance to improve surface of trail, drainage, and user safety, install reinforced switchbacks, and repairs to existing foot bridge to improve user safety, and install regulation signs.
Federal Funding: $159,919
Provincial Funding: $86,110
Total Funding: $246,029
South Cariboo Ventures Ltd.: Fourteen workers will be employed for brushing, the cutting of vegetation, chipping, and dispersal of debris in Lac Des Roche, Little Fort, Barriere, and Clearwater.
Federal Funding: $159,799
Provincial Funding: $86,046
Total Funding: $245,845
North Coast:
Kitamaat Village Council: Twelve workers will conduct juvenile spacing and brushing treatments in Kitamaat Village.
Federal Funding: $150,374
Provincial Funding: $80,971
Total Funding: $231,345
Kitamaat Village Council: Jobs for 7 workers doing spacing, pruning, fuel reduction, construction of a warming shelter, outhouse, and trail maintenance in Kitamaat Village and the District of Kitimat.
Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000
Old Massett Village Council with Silverwood Consulting Inc.: Eleven workers will conduct seed removal and fertilization of western red cedar trees in Port Clements and Massett.
Federal Funding: $162,416
Provincial Funding: $87,455
Total Funding: $249,871
Magyar Favago Holdings Ltd.: This project will employ seven workers for danger tree falling, bucking and debris removal in Meziadin, Stewart, and Dease Lake.
Federal Funding: $162,322
Provincial Funding: $87,404
Total Funding: $249,726
Silverwood Consulting Inc.: Twelve workers will conduct 72.2 hectares of juvenile spacing and brushing and 50 hectares of preparing infected tree stands for planting in Gitanyow and Kitwanga.
Federal Funding: $162,364
Provincial Funding: $87,426
Total Funding: $249,790
Nechako:
Industrial Forestry Service Ltd.: Through this project, 11 workers will be employed to fall pine beetle damaged and danger trees, buck logs, clear slash by burning or chipping in Vanderhoof.
Federal Funding: $152, 881
Provincial Funding: $82,320
Total Funding: $235,201
Tanizul Timber Ltd.: Twelve workers will conduct manual brushing of four sites in the Fort St. James and Tachi areas, for a total of 203 hectares.
Federal Funding: $104,476
Provincial Funding: $56,256
Total Funding: $160,732
Tootikoh Contracting: Thirteen workers will conduct manual brushing of government administered cut-blocks in Fort St. James and Nak'azdli.
Federal Funding: $65,432
Provincial Funding: $35,233
Total Funding: $100,665
Murray Ridge Ski Area: Seven workers will be employed for brushing 28.6 km, forest glading 12.5 hectares, danger tree falling approximately 580 trees, herbicide treatment of 8.8 kms on crown land near Fort St. James.
Federal Funding: $148,458
Provincial Funding: $79,939
Total Funding: $228,397
Redfern River Lodge Ltd.: Five workers will conduct danger tree falling, limbing, garbage removal, piling, thinning, and spacing in the Burns Lake and Ootsa Lake West areas.
Federal Funding: $47,264
Provincial Funding: $25,450
Total Funding: $72,714
Mainland/Southwest:
Boston Bar Community Development Society: Nine workers will conduct roadside brushing, removal of danger trees, removal of debris from ditches, and clearing of culverts in Boston Bar.
Federal Funding: $142,659
Provincial Funding: $76,816
Total Funding: $219,474
Xaxli'p Community Forest Corporation: Work in Lillooet by five workers will include spacing, pruning, lopping and scattering, or piling and burning.
Federal Funding: $82,407
Provincial Funding: $44,373
Total Funding: $126,780
Vancouver Island – Coast:
Island Conservation Canada: Eight workers will help with the restoration of seabird colonies and ecosystems on the Scott Islands through the development of 30 kilometres of temporary trails, falling danger trees, and clearing vegetation for six temporary tents and two temporary helicopter landing areas to allow biologists access to restore the ecosystem.
Federal Funding: $162,337
Provincial Funding: $87,413
Total Funding: $249,750
Khowutzun Forest Services Ltd.: Six workers will conduct thinning, spacing, pruning, cutting, chipping, and burning woody debris and living ladder fuels in Duncan and Chemainus.
Federal Funding: $162,500
Provincial Funding: $87,500
Total Funding: $250,000
Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve Society: Six workers will conduct thinning, wetland habitat restoration, and interpretive site improvements in Sechelt.
Federal Funding: $126,750
Provincial Funding: $68,250
Total Funding: $195,000
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