Timber Tenures and definitions

Question 1

Tree Farm Licence:

Area/Volume; Resource Rights; Duration; Major Responsibilities

Answer 1

• AREA
• RESOURCE RIGHTS: Grants virtually exclusive right to harvest timber and manage forests in a specified area. May include private land
• DURATION: term is 25 years, replaceable every 5-10 years
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES: Strategic and operational planning, inventories, reforestation, stumpage payments, obligation to use logging contractors for a portion of the volume harvested each year (exceptions may apply).

Question 2

Forest Licence:

Area/Volume; Resource Rights; Duration; Major Responsibilities

Answer 2

• Most common tenure in BC
• VOLUME
• RESOURCE RIGHTS: Grants the right to harvest an AAC in specified TSA or TFL area. May be competitively or directly awarded.
• DURATION: up to 20 years. May be replaceable every 5-10 yers, or non replaceable.
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: Operational planning, road building, reforestation, stumpage payments. May be required to use logging contractors for all or part of the volume harvested

Question 3

Timber Sale Licence:

Area/Volume; Resource Rights; Duration; Major Responsibilities

Answer 3

• VOLUME AND AREA
• Grant the right to harvest a volume of timber in a specified area or purchase logs. Issued only by BCTS via competitive auction.
• DURATION: up to 4 yeras, non replaceable. Existing replaceable TSL’s must be converted at the end of their term.
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: Operational planning in limited cases, stumpage payments. Obligated to operate in accordance with certification bodies.

Question 4

WOODLOT LICENSE:

Area/Volume; Resource Rights; Duration; Major Responsibilities

Answer 4

• AREA
• 1000 - 2000 M3 AAC/YEAR
• RESOURCE RIGHTS: Grants exclusive right to harvest an AAC and manage forests in a specified area. May include private land. May be competitively or directly awarded.
• DURATION: Up to 20 years. Most are replaceable every 10 years.
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategic and operational planning, inventories, reforestation, stumpage payments

Question 5

COMMUNITY FOREST AGREEMENT

Area/Volume; Resource Rights; Duration; Major Responsibilities

Answer 5

• AREA
• ROUGHLY 50-60 IN BC
• RESOURCE RIGHTS: Grants exclusive right to a First Nation, municipality, regional district or society to harvest an AAC in a specific area. May include private or reserve land. May include right to harvest, manage, and charge fees for botanical forest products and other products. May be competitively or directly awarded.
• DURATION: Not less than 25 years and not more than 99 years. Replaceable every 10 years.
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategic and operational planning, inventories, reforestation, stumpage payments.

Question 6

FORESTRY LICENCE TO CUT:

Area/Volume; Resource Rights; Duration; Major Responsibilities

Answer 6

• Very similar to tree farm licence, biggest difference is volume based tenure and area based tenure
• VOLUME BASED
• RESOURCE RIGHTS: Grants the right to harvest and/or remove timber from specified areas. Types are designed to meet differenet purposes, such as small scale salvage, small commercial purposes(firewood, fence posts, etc). May be directly or competitively awarded.
• DURATION: up to 5 years
• MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: Operational planning(if major licence or if issued under a pulpwood agreement), stumpage payments, reforestation where clearcuts larger than 1 ha

Question 7

Define forest tenure system

Answer 7

• A tenure is simply a lease, license, or other agreement for some party to harvest and process timber from Crown land
• Defined by the Land Ordinance act and the subsequent governmental contractual arrangements for private companies to log and process lumber harvested from Crown land

Question 8

what is the land ordinance act?

Answer 8

The 1865 Land Ordinance Act was BC’s first tenure system statute. It provided for logging rights without, as was previously done, complete alienation of the land from the Crown.

Question 9

What is the forest act?

Answer 9

• The Forest Act is the statute that defines forest tenure and forest licensing arrangements.
• AAC arrangements
• Defines content of tree farm licenses
• Regulation of stumpage(“rate setting”)

Question 10

Define FRPA

Answer 10

• Forest and range practices act: Governs activity and requirements of licensees and tenure holders
• Lays out generic activity guidelines (EG: must have FSP before CP’s issued)
• sets out the restrictions imposed upon
  tenures to protect environmental and other values