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Volume 49, No. 22

B.C. Reg. 298/2006

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

November 21, 2006

B.C. Reg. 298/2006, deposited November 15, 2006, pursuant to the FOREST ACT [Section 47.6 (2) (d)]. Order in Council 793/2006, approved and ordered November 14, 2006.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Forestry Licence to Cut Regulation, B.C. Reg. 221/2006, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— R. COLEMAN, Minister of Forests and Range and Minister Responsible for Housing; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

1 The Forestry Licence to Cut Regulation, B.C. Reg. 221/2006, is amended by adding the following section:

Bark beetle damage

(1) In this section, "bark beetle" means a bark beetle of the genus

Dendroctonus, Dryocoetes or Scolytus .

(2) For the purposes of

section 47.6 (2) (

d) of the

Forest Act , the regional manager or district manager may enter into a forestry licence to cut for the purpose of harvesting Crown timber located in the Northern Interior forest region or Southern Interior forest region that

(

a) is dead,

(

b) is likely, in the opinion of the regional manager or district manager, to be damaged or killed by bark beetles,

(

c) has been damaged by fire and is likely, in the opinion of the regional manager or district manager, to

(

i) die within 3 years, or

(ii) be at risk of attack by bark beetles, or

(

d) is windthrown and, in the opinion of the regional manager or district manager, must be harvested to limit or prevent the spread of bark beetles.

(3) If a forestry licence to cut is entered into under subsection (2), it may, in the discretion of the regional manager or district manager, include Crown timber that

(

a) is interspersed with the timber described in that subsection, or

(

b) must be harvested to provide access to the timber described in that subsection.

(4) The total volume of timber that may be specified in a forestry licence to cut entered into under this

section must not exceed 5 000 m 3 .

(5) This

section is repealed December 31, 2008.

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