SAC/ISC – Nursery Tree Seedling Growing Services 2022-2023

The Chilcotin Training Area (CTA), located north of the small community of Riske Creek and about 47 kilometres west of Williams Lake, consists of approximately 41,000 hectares of land owned by the Department of National Defence (DND) and is used as a military training area. The management of forest resources on this property is the responsibility of the Department of Indigenous Services Canada (DISC) through an Order-in-Council P.C. O.I.C 1961-807.

Logging activities undertaken under various Timber Permit and forest fires over the past decade has left some areas not satisfactory re-stocked.

As a result, DISC has initiated a reforestation program on the property as part their due diligence to rehabilitate the forested land base. 

DISC requires the services of a supplier for the production of tree seedlings of following species for a Spring plant in 2023 also described in the Seedlings Request Short Form:

• Lodgepole Pine
• Douglas Fir
• Larch (Plug individually wrap)
• Ponderosa Pine

  DISC is looking to establish a contract to provide the services for one growing period. The growing period shall begin on or about February 1 2022 to grow the seedlings and to carry out seedling growing services in support of the reforestation plans on the CTA