Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF)
What is the Sechelt Community Forest?
The Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) is a logging company licensed by the provincial government to log within a specific mandated area and required to meet a minimum annual allowable cut (AAC).
This business venture is owned by a single shareholder - the District of Sechelt.
The SCCA is not categorically opposed to community forests, per se. We were the original proponents of community forestry in the Sunshine Coast Regional District, and so we were very interested when the District of Sechelt announced its intention to apply for a "probationary community forest agreement" in 2003. Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that the application would open up logging in the Chapman/Gray drinking watershed and other sensitive areas.
A Community Forest is meant to be managed based on community values and balance all values and stakeholders needs in the community. This includes recreation, conservation, natural assets, business, education and jobs. The SCCA has tracked Community Forest operations in its three operating areas since 2003.
Take Action
Every year the Community Forest puts forward its Operations Plan for review and feedback.
The 2024-2028 Operating Plan was published in May 2024 for public review and comment. Proposed cut blocks were included in the new provincial Forest Operations Mapping (FOM) portal and the SCCF held a Webinar on the Plan in June 2024. The OP comment period ended on July 15, 2024. The public can contact the info1@sccf.ca to comment on these plans at any time.
Updates on the Sunshine Coast Community Forest
SCCA Makes Recommendations to Sechelt Council.
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 summarizes recently released Freedom of Information request results and references the standards of the Community […]
Read MoreSix Easy Ways to Fix the Community Forest
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 major spread in Just Business People Magazine, a 4-page glossy insert in the Coast Reporter, […]
Read MoreSCCA Files “Request for Review”
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 of June 9, 2009 . The SCCA felt that critical information was wrongfully withheld by Sechelt […]
Read MoreForestry Implications of a Low Carbon Economy
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 seen as a source of energy as well as material, with their value measured […]
Read MoreChair of BCs Forest Practices Board to visit Sunshine Coast
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 Conservation Association, Dr. Fraser plans to talk about climate change policies and BC industrial […]
Read MoreSechelt Community Forest is Out of the Watersheds
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 communitys main drinking watershed. Bruce Seifert of the Integrated Land Management Bureau (ILMB), in a presentation to the SC […]
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