Community forest corporation completes first year of operations – The Vermillion Forks Community Forest Corporation (“VFCFC”), a partnership of the Upper Similkameen Indian Band, Town of Princeton, and Regional District Okanagan Similkameen is ending its first full year of operations.
Originally contemplated in a 2007 Memorandum of Understanding and a subsequent Partnership Memorandum of Understanding between the three partners, the partners spent three years preparing an application for a community forest license and on November 29, 2010 were awarded a license by the Province of B.C. The license provides exclusive land management and harvesting rights over approximately 11,000 hectares surrounding Princeton.
Similkameen Spotlight – December 16, 2011 read more
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