Friends of Clayoquot Sound: Logging

International Forest Products (Interfor)

Logging Truck on Catface Mountain

Vancouver-based International Forest Products (Interfor) is a publicly traded logging corporation that has the capacity to log and produce 1.5 billion board feet of lumber every year (3.5 million cubic metres), which it sells around the world.

It has operations all along the coast of British Columbia (Canada), in interior British Columbia at Adams Lake, and in Oregon and Washington (USA). Almost all of Interfor's logging in British Columbia’s coastal temperate rainforest is in old growth.

Interfor began logging in Clayoquot Sound in 1992, after it purchased Tree Farm License #54 here.

In March 2007, Interfor sold the Tree Farm License to Ma-Mook Natural Resources, owned by local First Nations (see Ma-Mook/Coulson).

Interfor continues to hold a Forest License on public land in northern Clayoquot Sound. Its Forest License encompasses half of the intact (unlogged) Sydney Valley, half of intact Hesquiat Lake Creek, as well as areas around Hesquiat Harbour and Stewardson Inlet.

Interfor has not been active in Clayoquot Sound since early 2005, when Friends of Clayoquot Sound mobilized markets, media and public pressure and stopped the company from building a logging road into the intact valley of Hesquiat Lake Creek.

Interfor’s Forest License A19235 in Clayoquot Sound: approx. 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres)

PO Box 489, 331 Neill St., Tofino BC V0R 2Z0
250-725-4218 info@focs.ca