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Chinook Community Forest 2021 – 22 Community Donations
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.
Helping A Community Forest Rebuild for the Future
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.
Research Paper 1 & 2
One of Chinooks commitments in its management plan was to conduct 3 research papers. Chinooks first paper is on ASSESSING SET ASIDE OLD-GROWTH FORESTS WITH AIRBORNE LiDAR METRICS. Chinook teamed up with UNBC to complete this first paper, using Chinooks LiDAR/High...
Chinook Community Forest 2018-19 Annual Report
Chinook had a very interesting year to say the least. From very high snow levels to a very cold wet spring and then into the fires of 2018. Chinook lost approximately 9,000 hectares of it's THLB to the fires along with roughly $80,000 worth of block layout.
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.
2018 Fire Impact to Chinook Community Forest
2018 Chinook Community Forest lost 9,293 hectares of Timber Harvesting Land Base (THLB) between the Verdun, Shovel Lake, Nadina and Equity Mine fires.