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WFP holds the harvesting rights to 3.1 million hectares of Crown land on the BC coast under a variety of renewable forest tenures granted by the provincial government. These tenures allow the sustainable harvest of approximately 7.5 million cubic metres of high quality first- and second-growth logs each year. Additional volume is provided from some 30,000 hectares of WFP’s private lands. The main species harvested are Western Hemlock and Amabilis Fir (Hem-Fir), Western Red Cedar, Douglas Fir and Sitka Spruce.

WFP staff at 12 Timberland Operations manage the company’s forestry program from initial inventories, assessments and plans, through road building and harvesting, to reforestation and second-growth stand management. A combination of company and contract crews carry out these activities at more than 30 locations.

All timberland activities are governed by an Environmental Management System registered to ISO 14001 standards. The majority of WFP’s harvested volume is also certified to CSA standards as coming from sustainably managed forests. Both ISO registration and CSA certification are verified annually through a program of internal and independent third-party audits.

WFP plants about approximately 8 million trees each year, with a third of these grown at WFP’s nursery near Victoria and the balance contracted out to other private nurseries.