Defined Forest Area (historic information) 

 

The Defined Forest Area (DFA) is located in the Okanagan Shuswap Forest District.  The boundary of the DFA is specified in the licencees’ geographic information system (GIS) inventory. Please refer to Appendix 1 of the current SFM Plan for a historical map view of the DFA.

 

 

 

The DFA for WFN includes their Community Forest Agreement K1P and their Woodlot Licence W0346.  These replaceable licenses give the licencees the authority to harvest trees and construct roads along with the responsibility for forest planning, reforestation and road maintenance.  The DFA also includes approximately 25 BCTS operating areas scattered across the DFA, ranging in size from a few hundred hectares to several thousand hectares.

 

In addition to the listed licences, there may be other licences that operate within the DFA through such mechanisms as Non-Replaceable Forest Licences or through harvest transfers facilitated under Section 18  of the Forest Act.  Activity on these licences may occur inside the Licencees primary operating areas or outside the primary areas.  Annual reporting will occur for these licences where they are under the control of the Licencees or where the Ministry of Forests and Range has included the requirement for reporting in the licence document.  Reporting data for blocks outside the primary operating area will be cutblock specific.