BC Community Forest Association

Have you read our 2025 Community Forest Indicators Report?

Indicator #16 highlights the role community forests play in stewarding sensitive and ecologically significant areas, including watersheds, cultural heritage sites, and old growth forests.

Learn more at bccfa.ca

BCCFA Executive Director, Jennifer Gunter, will be speaking at the SISCO Winter Workshop with Casey Macaulay, Manager, Wells Gray Community Forest. The session will explore how Community Forest Agreements are strengthening local economies and supporting a diverse, resilient forest sector across B.C.

The BCCFA is proud to have collaborated with Canada's Nature Advantage on a case study about the Cheakamus Community Forest. The study explores how a community approach to land tenure can help make way for multiple revenues and beneficiaries.

Read more: www.natureadvantage.ca/.../CNA_Case...

In partnership with the BC Community Forest Association, the West Boundary Community Forest has released a new film, entitled ‘Our Forest’, to showcase the values, objectives, and diverse activities happening within its locally managed forest.

Read more: www.bccfa.ca/post/our-for...

Watch our new film Rooted Together, featuring five community forests. Through these features, the film illustrates how community forests are locally governed, community-driven, and deeply connected to the people and the land.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG94...

Join us in Vernon, BC from June 3-5, for the BCCFA Conference and AGM. The field trip will be hosted by the Monashee Community Forest in Lumby, BC on the ancestral and unceded land of the Sylix and Secwepemc people. Early bird registration opens March 10, 2026.

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Esk'etemc Community Forest crew!

Peter Flett, RPF, West Boundary Community Forest, (left), Jennifer Gunter, BCCFA, (middle), and Casey Macaulay, RPF, Wells Gray Community Forest

Dan Macmaster, RPF, West Boundary Community Forest (left), Susan Mulkey, BCCFA (middle), and Coulter Roberts, Westbank Community Forest (right)

Jennifer Gunter, BCCFA and Mackenzie Leine, RPF, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Forests

Our BCCFA staff and several Board members enjoyed a productive week at Forest Professionals British Columbia’s Conference in Vancouver. Across sessions and conversations, one theme stood out clearly: the forestry sector is transforming, and community forests are central to that shift.

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The BC Community Forest Association has released a new film entitled Rooted Together, created to highlight the value and impact of community forests throughout British Columbia.

Read more: www.bccfa.ca/post/the-bc-...

Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG94...

Presenters Gord Chipman of Woodlots BC (left) and Jennifer Gunter (right) with John Betts (centre) Executive Director of the Western Forestry Contractors' Association.

Great conversations at the #WFCAConference

Key takeaways: Forest management is complex and when issues are complex, simple answers are often the wrong ones. Progress depends on creating space for nuanced, grounded conversations.

#CommunityForests #BCCFA

BCCFA Executive Director, Jennifer Gunter, was a speaker at this year’s BC Natural Resources Forum, where she shared details about what community forests are and the power the model holds to bring solutions and solve problems, and to make our forests more resilient and communities stronger.

Gord Chipman from Woodlots BC with BCCFA's Executive Director (middle) and John Betts from Western Forestry Contractors Association.

Great to see colleagues like Jordon Gabriel of Lil̓wat Forestry Ventures.

Our Executive Director Jennifer Gunter (middle) connects with Minister Parmar, Bob Marquis of Bob Marquis Contracting Ltd, Minister Dix, and the Vancouver Sun's provincial political columnist.

Full house for a TLA Panel session.

We had a valuable few days at The Truck Loggers Association's 81st annual Convention and Trade Show.

Thank you to TLA for once again convening the sector for a strong and timely event. Let’s keep the conversations, and the collaboration, going.

#BCForestry #CommunityForests #WorkingTogether #TLA

Thank you to Lower North Thompson Community Forest Society (LNTCFS) for hosting a fantastic field tour yesterday!
🔥 We explored their Wildfire Risk Reduction project sites, including areas supported by the Economic Recovery Initiative and Forest Enhancement Society of BC.

📣 NEW RELEASE! Today marks an important day for the BCCFA, as we proudly release our 2025 Community Forest Indicators Report alongside the launch of our new brand and website.

We are thrilled with the results and hope you will be too! Check it out at www.bccfa.ca

A big day for community forestry in BC! The Ministry of Forests announced today the expansion of three community forests - Vanderhoof, Fort St. James and Fraser Lake. 👏 @rparmarbc.bsky.social

Read the full release at news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Excited to share our timely new wildfire mitigation project - working with communities to proactively reduce risk as more 🔥records are set across BC + Canada
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New Op Ed: “Community Forests: rooted in community, growing for generations” recently released and published. Read more here: bccfa.ca/as-published...

Supporting value-added forestry is important, and complex. Community forests work hard to balance fibre supply, local benefits, and economic realities.
The BCCFA is committed to local control, stewardship, and rural opportunity. Community forests are part of BC’s future and we’re ready to build it.

In her keynote session at our 2025 Conference, Dr. Jennifer Grenz helped redefine what forests and forestry truly mean in the context of integrating ecological care, climate resilience, and community well-being into a new era of land management.

That’s a wrap on our 2025 Conference & AGM! Thank you to all who joined us last week in Nanaimo to learn, exchange knowledge, and contribute to our growing community forestry network. We will be sharing some session highlights and wonderful photos over the coming days - stay tuned! 🌲

At this year’s BC First Nations Forestry Conference, delegates are gathered on the traditional territories of the Syilx Okanagan people in SnPink’tn (Penticton) to learn from the event theme, “Everything is Connected”.

We are at the COFI 2025 Convention this week with friends and colleagues! BCCFA Executive Director, Jennifer Gunter, presents on Friday April 4 as part of the “The Elephant in the Room: Let’s talk about fibre” panel.
Pictured: Jennifer Gunter with BCCFA Directors Klay Tindall and Dan Macmaster

YouTube video by GovernmentofBC We Work Together with the Land

On this International Day of Forests, we are proud to share a new video that highlights the exceptional work of Líl̓wat Forestry Ventures Ltd. (LFV) and their partnership with Spel'kúmtn Community Forest and Cheakamus Community Forest. Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Oj...

Registration is now open for our 2025 Conference with Early Bird pricing! The event will take place from May 26-28 in Nanaimo 🌲
To Register and learn more, visit site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEKCE...

Are you interested in learning more about community forestry in BC? Our annual Indicators Report is a fantastic resource that provides information about the program and both quantitative & qualitative data highlighting the benefits of these long term tenures. Read more here: bccfa.ca/indicators-r...

📣 New Report Release! 📣
As part of our ongoing partnership with BC Wildfire Service, the BCCFA conducted an in-depth Needs Assessment in 2023-2024 to determine wildfire management capacity of community forests across the province. Learn more and read the summary report at bccfa.ca/wildfire-ris...

We love seeing the “community” in community forestry!