BC Wildfire Service crews will assist with six ecosystem restoration burns in the Cariboo Fire Centre over the next few weeks.

The public is invited to community engagement sessions to provide feedback on two draft agreements to conserve southern mountain caribou populations.

The Heritage Branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, and the Vancouver Island Local History Society have entered into a five-year agreement for the management of Point Ellice House.

The British Columbia government is launching a regionally driven renewal of the province’s Interior forest industry, aimed at developing a competitive, sustainable future for forest companies, workers and communities.

The B.C. government is providing $1.75 million to the Tahltan First Nation to help the communities of Telegraph Creek and Dease Lake recover from the loss of homes following last summer’s wildfires.

The Forest Enhancement Society of B.C. is providing nearly $3.4 million to support a range of projects to improve unproductive forests or forests that have been damaged by wildfires or pests.

To create and support good jobs in British Columbia’s forest sector, government is investing $7.9 million to promote and grow markets for B.C. wood products at home and abroad.

Over 2,000 range agreement holders in British Columbia can now use an online system called MyRangeBC to more easily create, update and manage their range use plans.

Members of the public are invited to attend community engagement sessions to provide their feedback on two draft agreements to conserve southern mountain caribou populations.

The BC Wildfire Service plans to conduct a series of prescribed burns south of Williams Lake between April 3 and April 30, 2019, to help reduce wildfire risks in the area.