There are 60 community forests in British Columbia, but only one of them is a general partnership. This can be traced back 23 years, to a MOU in which the Klahoose First Nation and the Cortes Ecoforestry Society agreed to work towards a community forest. Then, in September 2013 the Ministry of Forests issued a Community Forest Agreement to the Cortes Forestry General Partnership (CFGP).
Continue reading The Cortes Forestry General Partnership(#2 in a series coming out of the Cortes Forestry General Partnership’s 2022 AGM)
According to BC Hydro, more than half the province’s power outages are caused by falling trees. That number is probably higher on Cortes and Quadra Islands, which are heavily forested. Trees appear to be dropping on the power lines every time there is a storm. There are also large numbers of relatively young trees falling over in the forest, and in people’s yards. Some of them were critically weakened by root rot.
In yesterday’s interview, General Manager Mark Lombard said a significant number of the fir trees that Cortes Forestry General Partnership recently harvested were afflicted by root rot.
So Cortes Currents asked, “how do you recognize root rot?”
Continue reading Recognizing Root Rot(The first in a series of articles coming out of the Cortes Forestry General Partnership’s 2022 AGM)
This has been the Cortes Community Forest’s most profitable year, but that is not the Cortes Forestry General Partnership’s only objective.
“I always start with what areas do we want to keep,” explained General Manager Mark Lombard.
He used a recent conversation to illustrate how Cortes is taking a different approach than the industry at large.
Continue reading Mark Lombard looks back over this past year in the Cortes community forest
