Forestry Contacts
Forest Companies and Mills in the South Peace
Canfor LTD
Website: www.canfor.com 
Phone: 250 788-2231
- Site owner- Canadian Forest products Ltd.
- Type- Lumber mill
- Status- active
- Location- Chetwynd
Keding Sawmill
Phone: 250 843-7064
- Site owner- Kevin Keding
- Type- Sawmill
- Status- semi-acitve
- Location- Dawson Creek
L.P. Building Products
Website: www.lpcorp.com
Phone: 250 782-3302
- Site Owner- Louisiana Pacific Canada Ltd.
- Type- Oriented Strand Board (OSB) Plant
- Status- active
- Location- Dawson Creek
West Fraser
Website: www.westfraser.com
Phone: 250 788-2686
- Site Owner- West Fraser Mills Ltd.
- Type- Lumber Mill
- Status- active
- Location- Chetwynd
Forestry Industries, Companies and Links
Canadian Institute of Forests
Website: www.cif-ifc.org
The Canadian Institute of Forests, founded in 1908, is the national voice of forest producers. The institute represents foresters, forest technologists and technicians, ecologists, biologists, geographers, educators, scientists and others with an interest in forestry. Their mission is to provide national leadership in forestry, promote competence among forest professionals and foster public awareness of Canadian and international forest issues.
Canfor (Canadian Forest Products Ltd.)
Website: www.canfor.com
Canfor is a leading integrated forest products company based in Vancouver, BC. They produce primarily softwood lumber but also produce products like Oriented Strand Board, remanufactured lumber products, and specialized wood products.
L.P. Building Supplies (Louisiana Pacific)
Website: www.lpcorp.com
Founded in 1973, L.P. is a leading manufacturer of high quality building materials. They focus on delivering innovative high-quality commodity and specialty building products to retail, wholesale, homebuilding and industrial customers. L.P. operates in three segments: oriented strand board, siding, and engineered wood products.
Ministry of Environment:
Environment Protection Division, Peace Region
Website: www.env.gov.bc.ca
This division has four areas of focus under the main office of the Ministry of Environment. They are: environmental management, environmental quality, integrated pest management and flood hazard management. Their environmental quality group assesses the impact of pollution from a wide variety of sources and ambient monitoring of the air, land, plants and water.
Ministry of Forests, Mines and Lands
Website: www.gov.bc.ca/for
The Ministry of Forest and Range is the main agency responsible for the public interest in the use of provinces forest and range lands. 94 per cent of BC’s forest and range lands are publically owned and managed by the provincial government on behalf of the public. The Ministry creates policies (with stakeholders) that encourage investment in the forest sector, while ensuring that forest practices are sustainable for future generation. The Ministry’s purposes include productivity of resources, forest management, protect and conserve forests, planning the use of forests, create a competitive timber processing industry and, assert the government’s financial interests in its forests and range resources.
BC Timber Sales
Website: www.gov.bc.ca/bcts
This is an independent organization under the Ministry of Forests and Range created to develop Crown timber for auction, to establish market prices, and to capture the value of the asset for the public
Forest Practices Board
Website: www.fpb.gov.bc.ca
The Forest Practices Board is BC’s independent watchdog for sound forest practices. The Board provides British Columbians with objective and independent assessments of the state of forest planning and practice, compliance with the Forest Practices Code and the achievement of its intent.
Peace Forest District
Phone: 250 784-1200
Email: forests.peacedistrictoffice@gov.bc.ca
The head office of the Peace River Forest District under the Ministry of Forest and Ranges.
Silva Forest Foundation
Website: www.Silvafor.org
The SFF is a BC organization who has pioneered an ecosystem-based conservation planning approach that protects biological diversity and ecological processes. They also assist communities and individuals to implement ecologically responsible human uses and develop community based economies. They also plan ecosystem protection and use which includes the mapping and analysis of past, present and future ecosystems use. The SFF creates plans and implementations for ecosystem restoration including analysis of current ecosystem conditions and the development of plans to help restore natural ecosystem character. They assist in educating and training people in communities and First Nations, land managers and planners in the principles, techniques and skills of ecosystem based conservation and stewardship.
West Fraser Mills Ltd.
Website: www.westfraser.com
West Fraser Timber Co Ltd. was founded in 1955 in Quesnel British Columbia and is an integrated forest products company. West Fraser produces lumber, wood chips, fiberboard, plywood, pulp, linerboard, kraft paper and newsprint.
