Protecting Forestry Resources for Future Generations
Lil̓wat Forestry Ventures (LFV) is an integrated forest management company engaged in a diversity of forestry disciplines including forestry management, wildland firefighting and fuels management, silviculture, and specialized tasks like BC Hydro slashing and tree climbing (arborist). The work of LFV’s 40 employees showcases safety, skill, experience, and proficiency.
LFV’s growing contracting division offers firefighting, field management work, brushing and slashing, and excavation work. This division also subcontracts engineering, road building, and harvesting services to outside companies. These companies are expected to hire and train Líl̓wat Nation members as part of
fulfilling LBG’s ongoing commitment to capacity building.
Cultural and community values drive LFV’s work, and therefore
it considers all the resources that forests on Líl̓wat lands, both
on-reserve and in Traditional Territory, provide such as food and medicine plants, wildlife habitat and culturally significant areas,
as having as high of a value as timber.
LFV Services
- Wildland firefighting
- Silviculture: Brushing, Planting and Surveys
- BC Hydro transmission slashing and CUA climbing
- Fuels management, manual and mechanical
- BC Timber Sales (BCTS) Timber Sale contracts
- Residential tree removals, climbing and bucket truck work
- Contract management
- Slash pile chipping/ burning
- Danger tree assessing and removal
- Excavator clearing
Current Forestry Licenses
Forest Management / Timber Removal
First Nations Woodland License N2V
Forestry License A19214m
Harvesting on IR 6/7
Woodlot 49
Woodlot 1666
Community forests LFV co-manages
Owl Creek Cultural Burn Case Study
BCCFA 20th Anniversary Video
This video, from the BC Community Forest Association, looks at the history of community forests in BC. Líl̓wat Nation, through the work of Forestry Ventures, is an active partner in two community forests on the Nation’s Traditional Territory, Cheakamus Community Forest in Whistler, and Spel̓kúmtn Community Forest in Pemberton.
Contact
Klay Tindall
Líl̓wat Forestry Ventures General Manager
T: (604) 894-6145 Ext. 2250
C: (604) 388-5529
Klay.tindall@lilwatbusiness.ca