Monitoring old growth logging in British Columbia
Forest Eye combines satellite imagery, remote sensing, and government data to detect logging and road-building in the most rare and at-risk old growth forests.
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Northpac Forestry Group Inc. built a road into an est. 92.15 ha of candidate old growth deferrals old growth forests near Hanawald Lake in the Skeena region. This old growth is at imminent risk of logging.
Date
2023/10
Company
Northpac Forestry Group
District
Skeena Stikine Natural Resource District
HA Logged
9.90
Logging in candidate old growth deferrals in September 2022 near Splinter Hill in the Cariboo region has been detected and an est. 5 ha of a possible 32 ha cut has been harvested so far.
Date
2022/09
Company
Eniyud Community Forests Ltd.
District
Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District
HA Logged
5.26
BC Timber Sales auctioned off 280 ha of old growth forests including 153 ha of candidate deferrals on the Akie River in the Omineca Region in Northern B.C. It was logged in January 2023 and burned by wildfire in May 2023
Date
2023/01
Company
Trenton Gainer
District
Mackenzie Natural Resource District
HA Logged
281.36
Key Statistics
Total area detected as logged
29,882HA
Total confirmed alerts
1663
Candidate deferrals detected as logged
15,745HA
Other old growth detected as logged
14,496HA
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