The Wells-Barkerville Community Forest is just north of the community of Wells, about 100 kilometres east of the city of Quesnel, in central British Columbia.

It is managed by the community of Wells to create revenue from timber harvesting, to maintain habitat for the endangered mountain caribou and at-risk grizzly bear, wolverine and fisher, for education and research, and for forest recreation.

The southern boundary is along the Willow River less than 500 meters north of the community and the forest extends nearly nine kilometers north to include Cornish and Hardscrabble Mountains and the high southern slope of Two Sisters Mountain.

The community began setting goals for a community forest in the 1990s. Nearly 20 years of community discussion and negotiation with the provincial government followed. The forest was finally established in 2014 under the terms of a 25 year Community Forest Agreement with the Province.

The community continues to direct the management of the forest. Over time, as circumstances change, as experience is gained and as new information becomes available, the emphasis given to some of the goals may change and more detail is added. In 2015 and again in 2019 community meetings reviewed and added greater detail to its forest management priorities.