ACCESS FORESTRY
Planning · Clearing · Maintaining · Reclaiming

The trees on your project, handled — from FID to returned to the Crown.

Access Forestry manages the Crown forest your capital project touches, for energy, mining, utilities and transportation. In-house Registered Professional Foresters, AI path and site modelling, and Western Canadian–based crews and equipment — one team for the whole lifecycle.

Book a route reviewHow we work
Caribou rangeSite 1Site 3Existing roadSite 2 + access · recommendedIllustrative
Registered Professional Foresters in-houseWestern Canadian–based crews & equipmentAlberta, BC and federal approvals

We're more than equipment.

Decades of forestry knowledge and field experience, combined with AI models, get you the access, keep your licence in good standing, and cut the complications and liabilities that follow a project for years.

Get the accessThe right site or path and a clean approval, sooner.
Keep the licenceConditions met and documented for the life of the disposition.
Stay compliantTiming windows, setbacks and salvage rules tracked before an inspector finds a gap.
Reduce long-term liabilityReclamation done right the first time, so the land goes back and stays back.

One team, from FID to return

Most projects hand the forest from consultant to consultant to contractor. We carry it the whole way, so nothing falls between the cracks — or into a burn pile.

  1. STARTFIDInvestment decision, approvals in hand
  2. 01PlanningSite, path, constraints, approvals
  3. 02ClearingCut, sort, broker the wood
  4. 03MaintainingRights-of-way, sites, access roads
  5. 04ReclaimingReforest, monitor, certify
  6. FINISHReturned to the CrownLiability closed
01 · Planning

Get to FID faster

Whether you need a site or a path through the bush, our AI models compare the options against forest inventory, LiDAR, setbacks, caribou range and timing windows — and put a dollar value on each. Our RPFs review the result and stamp what the regulator requires, so your forestry package is ready when your investment decision is.

Site selectionWell pads, facilities, mine sites, camps and laydown yards — candidate footprints scored on timber, constraints and access distance.
Path optimizationPipelines, power lines, roads and seismic — alignments compared segment by segment.
  • Every option priced: timber charges, stumpage, volume lost
  • Constraint and timing-window mapping for every site and segment
  • Regulator-ready packages for the AER, BC Energy Regulator and CER
  • RPF-signed cruise, appraisal and timber damage assessments
Sample · lower is better
Timber chargesNew access neededWindows at riskSite A
Site B
Site C
RPF reviewedRecommendation signed by [RPF name], RPF

Registered Professional Foresters, in-house

Not a subcontract. Our RPFs plan the work, make the clearing calls with you, and sign off the reforestation — one line of professional accountability from the first map to the final certificate.

Plan & approveCruise design, appraisal, timber damage and fire-hazard assessments, sealed for the regulator.
Clear & disposeDecide what's milled, chipped, given or burned — and keep salvage and disposal inside the rules.
Reforest & certifyReforestation plans, monitoring and the sign-off that gets the land back to the Crown.
02 · Clearing

Every stem has a destination

Before the first tree comes down, our RPFs agree with you and your construction contractor what will be milled, reused, given to communities — or, only as a last resort, burned. We broker merchantable timber to mills and track every load from the deck to the scale ticket.

MillSawlogs and pulpwood brokered to regional mills.
ReuseChips, mulch and biomass — on site for erosion control or sold.
CommunityFirewood decked for local First Nations and communities.
DisposePile and burn as a last resort, under fire-hazard rules.
Timber ledgerCruisedDeckedHauledScaledReconciled with the regulator
03 · Maintaining

Western Canadian–based crews. Our own equipment.

Crews who know the bush keep your rights-of-way, lease sites and access roads clear and compliant for the life of the asset. Based in Western Canada, working across [regions served].

Mulchers
Right-of-way and lease mulching
Feller bunchers & processors
Clearing and decking
Log trucks
Haul to mill, scale-ticketed
Chippers
Chips and biomass on site
Brushing crews
Vegetation control cycles
Access roads
Clearing and upkeep
04 · Reclaiming

Back to the Crown

RPF-led reforestation, revegetation and monitoring through to the reclamation certificate — including caribou habitat restoration where your approval requires it.

  1. Reclamation plan
  2. Planting & revegetation
  3. Monitoring
  4. Certificate
  5. Returned to the Crown

Built for capital projects

EnergyPipelines, well sites, facilities, seismic
MiningMine sites, haul roads, exploration
UtilitiesTransmission and distribution lines
TransportationHighways, resource roads, rail corridors

Talk to a forester about your project

Send us your route or site and where you are in the project. A Registered Professional Forester will come back with what it will take — and where the savings are.