Government is implementing an interim moratorium on new resource development in parts of northeastern British Columbia, while providing more time to protect jobs and support workers as it engages with affected communities and industries on long-term caribou protection strategies.

The Logan Lake Community Forest Corporation has taken top spot in 2019 for community forests, winning a community forestry award along with a $10,000 grant.

Making life better and more affordable for British Columbians, while building a strong economy, was at the core of government work inside and outside the Parliament Buildings this spring.

The public is invited to provide input on a program that helps to ensure the sustainable management of private forests in B.C. until July 9, 2019.

Forestry contractors and service providers affected by licensee insolvency will benefit from added financial protection now that the Province has contributed another $250,000 to the Forestry Service Providers Compensation Fund.

The BC Wildfire Service and the Tk’emlups Forestry Development Corporation plan to conduct a six-hectare prescribed burn near Goose Lake, near Lac Le Jeune Road and about nine kilometres south of Kamloops.

Up to 17,000 hectares of Douglas fir forest in the Williams Lake and 100 Mile House timber supply areas will be aerially treated to reduce western spruce budworm populations.