In 1986, under the BC Forest Act, WFN was awarded a woodlot license on the east side of Kelowna.
Woodlot 346 is located in what is provincially considered the “Kootenay mix”. This is the eastern portion of the interior wet belt and contains a wide range of tree species including ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, balsam, Englemann spruce, western redcedar, western larch, trembling aspen, black cottonwood, white birch and willow.
The annual allowable cut is set at 1,750 cubic metres for the woodlot. WFN members undertook their first harvesting project on the woodlot in 1990.
In 2003 a large portion of the woodlot was burned during the Okanagan Mt. Park wildfire. In the spring of 2004 burned timber was salvage harvested.
Harvesting has been deferred on the woodlot since 2004 as our attention is turned to addressing the mountain pine beetle outbreak on the Westbank First Nation Community Forest.
Woodlot 346 is located in what is provincially considered the “Kootenay mix”. This is the eastern portion of the interior wet belt and contains a wide range of tree species including ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, balsam, Englemann spruce, western redcedar, western larch, trembling aspen, black cottonwood, white birch and willow.
The annual allowable cut is set at 1,750 cubic metres for the woodlot. WFN members undertook their first harvesting project on the woodlot in 1990.
In 2003 a large portion of the woodlot was burned during the Okanagan Mt. Park wildfire. In the spring of 2004 burned timber was salvage harvested.
Harvesting has been deferred on the woodlot since 2004 as our attention is turned to addressing the mountain pine beetle outbreak on the Westbank First Nation Community Forest.
