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
Den-Mit Enterprises
District
Skeena Natural Resource Region
HA Logged
9.90
Louisiana Pacific is logging candidate old growth deferrals in September 2023 near Kicking Horse River in the Kootenay region and an est. 1.4 ha of a possible 12.8 ha cut has been harvested so far.
Date
2023/09
Company
Trans Mountain Pipeline
District
Kootenay-Boundary Natural Resource Region
HA Logged
1.40
Hillcore Lakeside Pacific Forest Products Ltd is logging old growth forests in September 2024 near Lookout Lake in the South Coast region and an est. 10.2 ha of a possible 36.8 ha cut has been harvested so far.
Date
2024/09
Company
Oceanview Forest Products
District
South Coast Natural Resource Region
HA Logged
10.15
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
Wood King Contracting
District
Omineca Natural Resource Region
HA Logged
281.36
Key Statistics
Total area detected as logged
36,201HA
Total confirmed alerts
2082
Candidate deferrals detected as logged
19,166HA
Other old growth detected as logged
17,295HA
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