Purpose

To show the location of tenures held by forest licensees in the Chilliwack River Watershed.

Data source(s)

B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range, Chilliwack Forest District. 

Explanation

Of the 65,000 hectares within the Chilliwack Landscape Unit, 87% is within the Crown forested land base or the Timber Harvesting Land Base. Primary tenure holders include the Ch-ihl-kway-uhk Forestry Limited Partnership, BC Timber Sales, Probyn Logging, Northwest Hardwoods, and Scott Paper. The 13% of the watershed not within the forestry land base includes private property, non-productive forests, and non-forested lands (alpine, rock, water, etc).

Various constraints further limit the amount of timber that can be logged from the watershed. These constraints include protected areas (parks), Old Growth Management Areas, Special Management Zones (e.g., Spotted Owl Management Areas), and Ungulate Winter Range areas (see Deer and Goat Winter Range Map).

Disclaimer

The maps included in the Chilliwack River Watershed Atlas are not intended to be legal documents and it is important that users understand their limitations.  The data has come from many different sources collected at different times and therefore there are variations in the information provided.  In addition, the spatial accuracy of both resource and cadastral information will vary.  The maps are intended as a general guide that will need to be refined and updated.   Users are encouraged to contact the originator of the data in order to obtain up to date or more detailed mapping if required.  

Contacts

For more information about this project or the data in this map, please contact:

Lance Lilley	Shannon Sigurdson
Planning Fraser Valley Regional District Chilliwack, BC        llilley@fvrd.bc.ca	GIS Fraser Valley Regional District Chilliwack, BC ssigurdson@fvrd.bc.ca

 

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