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Arboriculture & Forestry

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Managing forests in both natural and urban settings requires technical expertise and practical solutions. McTavish provides environmental consulting in BC to support projects that involve forest management, clearing and restoration. The team has extensive experience in natural forest areas and urban interface forests and delivers clearing plans and quality assurance on large capital projects.
A close-up of a persons hand holding a blue slingshot loaded with a wooden arrow, aimed at a blurred outdoor background with green foliage. Two construction workers wearing safety vests and hard hats smile as they look at a smartphone outdoors on a gravel path, with greenery in the background.
Two people wearing safety vests and helmets stand in dense greenery, examining a large tree stump. One person points at the stump while the other holds a measuring stick near marked trees.

Key services include:

  • Forest inventory and health assessments
  • Urban tree inventory and health assessments
  • Urban tree risk assessment
  • Wildlife danger tree assessments for forest harvest, silviculture and parks operations
  • Oversight of vegetation management, including brushing and timber felling
  • Forest harvest/clearing planning and quality assurance
  • Land reclamation including planning, coordination, and implementation
  • Timber appraisal
  • Tree and plant appraisal
  • Landscape audits
  • Expert witness reports and testimony
  • Mapping
  • Permitting