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Woodlands Operations

British Columbia · Ontario · Québec · Newfoundland


British Columbia

Address
P.O. Box 250, FFI Road
Mackenzie, British Columbia
Canada V0J 2C0

T (250) 997-3201


General Manager: Ken Lloyd

Number of Employees:

  • 35 woodlands employees
  • 350 contract logging
  • 300 seasonal contract workers for silvicultural operations

    Public forest

  • Volume-based Forest License in the Mackenzie Timber Supply Area
    (47% white spruce, 41% lodgepole pine, 12% balsam)
  • 15-year term, renewable every 5 years
  • 932, 500 m3 Annual Allowable Cut

    Location

  • Mackenzie Timber Supply Area (north central British Columbia)
  • 6.2 million ha total; 1.2 million ha productive forest
  • Harvesting located in 5 main operating areas. Up to 300-km distance from mills.

    Roads

  • 300 km of roads built annually
  • Maintenance of up to 850-km road network

    Camps

  • Six remote camps; 1 floating camp; sizes from 42 - 190 persons

    Harvesting

  • 82% ground-based, 17% overhead yarding, 1% aerial yarding
  • 47% cut-to-length deliveries; 53% tree length deliveries.
  • All carried out by contractors

    Transportation

  • 70% towed in booms down Williston Lake
  • 30% direct-hauled to mills

    Silvicultural operations

  • Planting of 6 million seedlings a year in areas harvested by Abitibi-Consolidated
  • 1,700 hectares of stand tending

    Map of Woodlands operations

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