Fibre Utilization in the Cariboo Region

This project involved transporting uneconomic residual wood to pulp mills, a pellet plant and a power plant to avoid pile burning emissions and improve fibre utilization. The residual fibres are typically burned due to the poor quality, small piece size and distance from markets. The volume of residual fibre is generated through a combination of commercial harvesting operations for sawlogs and also from landscape level wildfire risk reduction treatments. Some areas of very old mountain pine beetle killed forests are traditionally rehabilitated using commercial harvesting and in these areas large volumes of residual un-economic fibre are created. The recovery of this fibre creates employment stability for First Nations and local logging contractors.