This document provides guidance for community forests in BC dealing with post-wildfire recovery. It outlines key activities, responsibilities, and funding options for rehabilitation. Building relationships with local First Nations, other community forests, BC Wildfire Service, and stakeholders is emphasized.
Community forest managers have adopted a stewardship approach to management of their tenures and recognize that forests are dynamic. Community forests are actively managing for old growth, biodiversity and working to create more resilient ecosystems in the face of climate change. They are incorporating wildfire risk and community safety, forest health, watershed protection and cultural values in their plans . They are putting an emphasis on active management of a suite of values, including jobs, to achieve balance on the land. In this report you will find examples of how community forests are actively managing for old growth on the land around their communities.
This guide was developed for managers of small tenures in British Columbia who are working closely with local communities, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, as well as provincial, federal, and municipal agencies. It provides examples of lessons learned and key concepts that will help guide managers in the process of cultivating social licence using a range of participatory approaches.
A Guide to Building Relationships and Cultivating Social Licence
By comparing the value created by community forests and the total forest activity in the province, this study provides insight into the benefits that community forests bring to the rural and Indigenous communities they operate within, and to the province as a whole. Using a multiple account analysis framework, the report assesses the socio-economic impacts of community forests on economic development, government revenues and social implications.
Socio-Economic Impacts of British Columbia’s Community Forests Program
This practical “how-to” guide provides valuable tools and techniques for everyone interested or involved in community forest management in British Columbia and elsewhere. Published in 2004 it compiles the collective wisdom of community forestry practitioners in the province and embraces many of the lessons on community forestry learned to date. It remains a useful tool.
Published in 2012, this guidebook addresses critical governance and forest management information priorities identified by BCCFA members. The information, tools, and techniques here, relate specifically to this unique tenure, and endure over time.
The Community Forestry Guidebook II: Effective Governance and Forest Management
Micro sawmills are defined as mills that process 2,000-20,000 m3 per year. Micro mills present a number of opportunities for community forests including the creation of more local jobs, increased value from harvested trees, and enhanced rural economic diversification.
This in-depth report offers two case studies of community forests operating micro sawmills, what is needed financially and logistically to start up a sawmill, and a list of important elements to consider in determining if this unique investment opportunity is the right fit for any given community forest.
Micro Sawmills in British Columbia – Insights for Community Forests Report
A three-part series of stories on community forests and how they are supporting local value-added manufacturing.
Value Added Enterprises and Community Forests
Likely-Xatsu’ll Comunity Forest and Small Scale Industries – A Likely Story
Harrop-Procter Community Forest – It’s All About Local Values
