Community Forest

The SCCA has submitted a new paper to the District of Sechelt on how to fix the District’s community forest corporation. These six recommendations are mostly administrative in nature but go to the heart of what is needed.

Our paper … Read More “SCCA Makes Recommendations to Sechelt Council.”

Annoyed SCCA members and others have been calling and writing to express their irritation with the recent advertising blitz from Sechelt Community Projects Incorporated (SCPI — holder of a probationary community forest licence). This flood of promotional materials includes a … Read More “Six Easy Ways to Fix the Community Forest”

The SCCA has filed a “Request for Review ” with the BC Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) on September 2, 2009. This request relates to the Sechelt Community Forest’s response to our Freedom of Information request … Read More “SCCA Files “Request for Review””

NOTES FROM A LECTURE BY DR. BRUCE FRASER
Chair of the Forest Practices Board of BC
hosted by the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association
April 23, 2008
Seaside Centre, Sechelt

Forests used to be a “fibre basket.” But forests are now … Read More “Forestry Implications of a Low Carbon Economy”

On Wednesday, April 23rd at 7 pm, Dr. Bruce Fraser will address “Forestry Implications of a Low Carbon Economy” at the Seaside Centre. All members of the community are welcome to attend this open meeting.

Invited by the Sunshine Coast … Read More “Chair of BC’s Forest Practices Board to visit Sunshine Coast”

March 18, 2008

The details are sketchy as yet but it is apparent that the Sechelt Community Forest has been removed from the Chapman/Gray Community watershed. There are now no logging licencees operating in the community’s main drinking watershed.

Bruce … Read More “Sechelt Community Forest is Out of the Watersheds”