Cariboo Wildfire Forest Carbon Reforestation

Project Number: #FC0000116

This project is to reforest areas severely impacted by the unprecedented scope and scale of the 2017 and 2018 devastating wildfires and by doing so, obtain maximum benefit of carbon sequestration. Activites include planning, mapping, surveying, and planting trees towards the goal of rehabilitating fire-damaged areas. Reforesting areas where there are no commercial obligations to reforest enhances and restores productivity in in these areas. This project helps to support the achievement of Provincial greenhouse gas reduction goals and the reforestation component of the Cariboo and Thompson-Okanagan Restoration Plan.

OrganizationOffice Of the Chief Forester-FLNRORD
PurposeTaking Action on Climate Change
RegionCariboo Region
Closest CommunityVarious
Job Estimate552 (Direct, Indirect & Induced FTE’s)
Approved Funding$64,956,875
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The Forest Enhancement Society of BC would like to gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Forests.