The Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) is moving toward a more climate-driven forest management strategy, following a climate-risk assessment that forecasts significantly higher wildfire activity, worsening drought and increasing tree stress across much of the tenure through mid-century. The findings, prepared by Frontera Forest Solutions, Inc., mark the beginning of an operational shift for the 33,000-hectare tenure jointly managed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler, Lil’wat Nation and Squamish Nation. “[The assessment] identified going out to 2060 where the community forest is going to become more at risk due to climate change and from our key risks, which are wildfire and drought. And on the heels of those things, when the forest is stressed, pest infestation comes,” said CCF executive director Heather Beresford. …CCF plans to release its 2026 harvest plan by year-end, with draft 2027 plans to follow. The climate resiliency plan will play into the CCF’s harvest plans moving forward.