Our Forest

The Wells-Barkerville Community Forest is 4,527 hectares of Engelmann Spruce, Sub Alpine Fir and Lodgepole Pine very near the headwaters of the Willow River in east-central British Columbia.

From the north bank of the Willow River, just 400 meters north of the community of Wells, the forest extends about nine kilometers further north, straddling Cornish Mountain and upper Big Valley Creek and extending up the southern slope of Two Sisters Mountain.

The forest’s elevation increases from 1200 meters at the Willow River to the subalpine at 1700 meters on the high slope of Two Sisters. Most of the forest is in the is in the Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir (ESSF) wet cool biogeoclimatic subzone, but two small fringes on the shoulders of Two Sisters and Hardscrabble mountains are in the ESSF wet cold subzone and one small fringe immediately across the Willow from Wells is in the Sub Boreal Spruce (SBS) wet cool subzone.