Timberlands Division
Our Timberlands Division provides the following services to our valued clients:
Forest Management
- Timber assessments and appraisal
- Private land timber marketing
- Forest engineering field audits
- Total chance planning
- Timber, road and cutblock reconnaisance
- Resource road design and layout
- Bridge and major culvert site surveys and data collection
- Cutblock design and layout
- Riparian assessments
- Stream classification and inventory
- Fish and wildlife habitat assessments
- Windthrow assessments
- Site plan field work and prescriptions
- Operational mapping
- Cutting permit, road permit, burning permit and special-use permit preparation and applications
- Fuel hazard assessments and abatement
- Wildfire threat assessments, forest fuel and fire management plans
- Road deactivation prescriptions
Industrial Forestry
- Management and supervision of ground-based/cable logging operations and log hauling
- Management and supervision of road/bridge construction, maintenance and deactivation
- Development and implementation of log quality inspection systems
- Logging system productivity studies (e.g.: mechanical falling, rubber tire skidding, crawler skidding, forewarder skidding, delimbing and processing, and loading)
- Log delivery system productivity studies (e.g.: loading, hauling, unloading, and log yard/log dump practices)
- Logging rate dispute audits and analyses
- Log haul rate dispute audits and analyses
- Log haul cycle time dispute audits and analyses
Environmental Management
- Management and supervision of road/bridge construction and timber harvesting to ensure activities comply with plans, government legislation and company environmental/sustainable forest management systems
- Environmental monitoring
- Development of Environmental Management Systems
Resource Road Management
- Annual resource road, culvert and bridge inspections (e.g.: documenting inspections, risk rating road sections, mapping and maintaining associated database)
- Management and supervision of road/bridge construction, maintenance and deactivation
- Road, culvert and bridge maintenance/deactivation prescriptions
- Road maintenance production and quality audits and analyses
- Road safety field audits
- Road Marshall services
- Installation of road/bridge signage
- Right-of-way vegetation management
Erosion & Sediment Control
- Selection, installation, inspection and maintenance of erosion and sediment controls during road construction and deactivation operations
Project Management
- Scheduling work and organizing crews and equipment to effect the safe development, harvesting and delivery of timber
- Scheduling work and organizing crews to effect the safe maintenance of resource roads
- Scheduling work and organizing crews to effect the safe design and layout of resource roads and cutblocks
Training Workshops
- Environmental/sustainable forest management system training for logging contractor employees and subcontractors
- Health and safety program training for logging contractor employees and subcontractors
- Log quality training for logging contractor employees and subcontractors
- British Columbia Wildfire Service S100 Basic Fire Suppression and Safety training and certification
- British Columbia Wildfire Service S100A Annual Fire Safety refresher training and certification
- Annual Wildfire Safety Awareness training and certification for individuals who have not taken the S100 Basic Fire Suppression and Safety training course, and DO NOT work in a forestry operation where workers may be required to fight forest fires
- Transport Canada Transportation of Dangerous Goods TDG training and certification
Clients
The following are samples of current and past clients our Timberlands Division has served since our incorporation in 2006:
- Canadian Forest Products Ltd.
, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Mackenzie Woodlands, Mackenzie, British Columbia
- Prince George Woodlands, Prince George, British Columbia
- BEL Contracting Ltd.
, Burnaby, British Columbia
- British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development.
, Victoria, British Columbia
- Chilliwack Natural Resources District, Chilliwack, British Columbia
- Bushtech BC Ltd., Hope, British Columbia
- Canadian Army, 39 Service Battalion, Technical Services Company
, Chilliwack, British Columbia
- Drake Excavating (2016) Ltd.
, Maple Ridge, British Columbia
- East Fraser Fiber Co. Ltd. / Parallel Wood Products Ltd.
, Mackenzie, British Columbia
- IOTA Construction Ltd.
, Chilliwack, British Columbia
- K & G Contracting Ltd., Louis Creek, British Columbia
- Kan-Arm Contracting Ltd.
, Chilliwack, British Columbia
- King Pine Contracting Ltd., Prince George, British Columbia
- Kingston Construction Ltd.
, Surrey, British Columbia
- Macro-Spiecapag Joint Venture, Calgary, Alberta
- Macro-Spiecapag Joint Venture: Spread 5B - Trans Mountain Expansion Project, Hope, British Columbia
- Macro Projects Inc., Calgary, Alberta
- Macro Projects Inc.: Spread 5B - Trans Mountain Expansion Project, Hope, British Columbia
- MarLim Ecological Consulting Ltd.
, Surrey & Prince George, British Columbia
- Munson Equipment (1992) Ltd., Chase, British Columbia
- NorLand Limited
, Burnaby, British Columbia
- Ridgeline Archaeology Ltd.
, Prince George, British Columbia
- Skylark Management Corp., Maple Ridge, British Columbia
- Springline Construction Ltd.
, North Vancouver, British Columbia
- Teamwork Property Management Ltd.
, Abbotsford, British Columbia
- Triex Contracting Ltd.
, North Vancouver, British Columbia
- Warmac Ventures Ltd.
, Prince George, British Columbia
- West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.
, Vancouver, British Columbia
- 100 Mile Woodlands, 100 Mile House & Kamloops, British Columbia
Contact Us
- For a free consultation contact us at (604) 858-6304 or info[at]eastwestenviro.com
General Inquiries
Chilliwack, British Columbia Office
- Telephone: (604) 858-6304
- Facsimile: (604) 858-6340
- Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Pacific Time
- Mailing Address:
East-West Environmental Services Inc.
Post Office Box 2232, Station Sardis Main, Chilliwack, British Columbia CANADA V2R 1A6