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Canfor to Sell Mackenzie Assets for $70 Million

Canfor Corporation on Thursday (2-24-22) announced that it has entered into a Letter of Intent with McLeod Lake Indian Band and Tsay Keh Dene Nation to sell its forest tenure in the Mackenzie region of British Columbia and in a separate agreement with Peak Renewables to sell its Mackenzie site, plant, and equipment for a combined price of $70 million (CAD).

Lawsuit Challenges Bureau of Land Management’s Post-Archie Creek Fire Logging Plan

Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, all environmental organizations, filed a lawsuit on February 8, 2022, that challenges the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) post-Archie Creek Fire logging plans. Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands Legal Director said on Tuesday that this is the BLM’s first major post-fire salvage logging operation under a relatively new resource management plan.

Allowable Annual Cut Reduced on Tree Farm License 8

B.C.’s chief forester, Diane Nicholls, announced on Thursday (2-10-22) that a new allowable annual cut (AAC) level for Tree Farm License (TFL) 8 in the Southern Interior has been set, effective immediately. The new AAC for TFL 8 is 158,400 cubic meters with a maximum of 131,500 cubic meters harvested from terrain of less than 45% slope.

Allowable Annual Cut Reduced for B.C.’s Okanagan Timber Supply Area

Shane Berg, B.C.’s deputy chief forester, has announced that he has set a new allowable annual cut (AAC) level for the Okanagan Timber Supply Area (TSA), effective immediately. The new AAC for the Okanagan TSA is 2,462,800 cubic meters. It is a decrease of approximately 20% from the previous AAC of 3,078,405 cubic meters, which included an increase to allow salvage of stands affected by the mountain pine beetle.