Operations

Forestry Operations

Tender Package – Pinkut Creek Site Prep – 123.80ha

Tender Package coming soon Located in the Grizzly FSR area. Completed tenders must be received by Chinook Community Forest no later than August 5, 2025 at 2:30 pm (local time). Tenders received late will be returned unopened. A hard copy of the...

Fuel Treatment Explainer Brochure

BCCFA, in collaboration with UBC Centre for Wildfire Coexistence, BC Wildfire Service, First Nations' Emergency Services Society and the Silviculture Innovation Program, have produced the brochure Fuel for Thought. The brochure "is designed to...

Chinook Annual Report – April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2024

Chinook Community Forest Annual Report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024. Chinook had a successful year supporting the Lakes District economically and socially. To review the report, click here: 2024 Chinook Comfor Annual Report...

Chinooks 2nd Generation Forest Stewardship Plan (January 2022-2027)

Chinook Community Forest as just recently received its 2nd Generation Forest Stewardship Plan. Chinook would like to acknowledge and thanks the Nadina District Staff .

An Index for Tracking Old-Growth Value in Disturbance-Prone Forest Landscapes

Chinook Community Forest teamed up with the University of Northern BC to research Old-Growth and track using LiDAR.

Chinook Community Forest FESBC Project

Chinook Comfor is working with Forest Enhancement Society BC to salvage burnt fiber from the Verdun 2018 Wildfires with in Chinooks K4R license area. This project will salvage 93.6 hectares of badly burnt fiber.

High Resolution Inventory Solution(HRIS) comparison to Vegetation Resources Inventory(VRI)

Tesra, Chinooks LiDAR contractor completed a comparison its HRIS to provincial VRI. The purpose of this document is to provide a comparison of the HRIS forest inventory with the corresponding VRI inventory as it relates to the whole treed area.

Chinooks 5-Year Harvesting Operational Plan

Chinook using its High Resolution Inventory System (HRIS), has developed a 5 year harvesting plan. This plan also identifies very high fuel loaded areas that are a threat to the communities it surrounds.

Chinook Community Forest 5-Year Annual Operation Plan with Forest for Tomorrow(FFT)

Over the last year Chinook has developed an 5-year AOP Plan to survey 2000 hectares with in the 2018 fires. Chinook anticipates a third of this will require some kind of site prep for planting of Class A seedling stock. Mixture of pine, spruce,...

CCF/FFT 2019-20

Chinook Community Forest completed roughly 400 hectares of site prep of non liability plantations that were impacted from the 2018 Verdun & Nadina Wildfires. These areas are scheduled to be replanted spring/summer of 2021.