The B.C. government is handing out over $1.8 million in new grants to help control the spread of invasive plants in the province.

Effective March 24, 2017, the allowable annual cut for Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd.’s Tree Farm Licence (TFL) 55 near Revelstoke, is 83,000 cubic metres.

The British Columbia government is providing the District of Oak Bay with $20,000 to support ongoing efforts to control urban deer.

The challenge is clear. While British Columbia’s forest sector has a distinct advantage in market development, there are untapped opportunities related to innovation.

Legislative amendments introduced will make it easier for hunters to complete licensing, permitting and reporting activities online, and also will give wildfire investigators more time to complete their work and streamline the cost-recovery process associated with human-caused wildfires.

The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is taking immediate action to save the Columbia North caribou herd from wolf predation.

Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Steve Thomson has issued the following statement regarding federal Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr’s announcement of a Federal-Provincial Task Force on Softwood Lumber:

The B.C. government is following through on its commitment to support economic diversification in rural British Columbia by distributing over $750,000 in new project-development grants to help small communities strengthen local economies.

My Canada! My BC! is the theme for this year’s Heritage Week, which runs from Feb. 13 to Feb. 19, 2017, in British Columbia.