Carleton-Victoria Wood Producers Association & Forest Products Marketing Board
Dedicated to effective woodlot management
The Carleton-Victoria Wood Producers Association was established in 1975 by a group of concerned woodlot owners, logging contractors and truckers who were seeking to work together to obtain fair access and treatment in the forest products market.
In 1978, the Association decided to hold a plebiscite to form the Carleton-Victoria Forest Products Marketing Board. The Marketing Board concept would give more legislated authority and structure for the group to carry out negotiations with the various forest industries and form contracts for the sale of primary forest products.
Since their incorporation, the Board and Association have developed many services targeted towards woodlot owners, logging contractors, and truckers in the Carleton and Victoria counties area of New Brunswick in order to assist with the effective forest management on private woodlots in the two counties.
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What We Do
We are a non profit organization, dedicated to helping private woodlot owners in Carleton and Victoria counties.
Our Vision
Our organization is committed to encouraging the management of private woodlots. Our goal is to manage a forest for land owners. Most private woodlot owners want the forest managed for its highest economic value but at the same time maintaining forest values including wildlife habitat. Harvesting and thinning can increase the long term economic value of a woodlot. Our principle is to have a productive and healthy forest to pass onto future generations.
Services
We offer many services for our members and land owners to help manage and harvest their land. Silviculture, Boundary Maintenance, Road Location/Block Layout and more.
- Provide a detailed account of harvest receipts
- Allow for protection of any special sites that are found on the woodlot
- Provide landowner training in areas such as "Best Management Practices", GPS Navigation and Selling Stumpage
- Provide habitat management for multiple species
- Provide land management that conforms to the Pan Canadian Certification System
- Incorporate harvest practices that conform to The Master Logger Certification Program
- Assure the landowner that their property is being managed by competent professionals
A properly managed woodlot
- Generates sustainable levels of income
- Protects natural features
- Encourages wildlife habitat
- Provides clean drinking water
- Limits losses due to forest insects and diseases
- Enhances recreational activities
- Complies with local Acts and Regulations
- Allows intergenerational transfer of the property
- Allows for the development of non-timber forest products
What's included
- Well-marked boundaries
- Standing wood volume estimate
- Identification of silvicultural needs
- An account of forest health and vigor
- Identification of insect or disease problems
- Professional harvest monitoring
- Professional bridge and culvert installation by a certified installer
- Protection of natural features
- Tax breaks on intergenerational transfer of property
Get in Touch. Get Involved.
151 Perkins Way
Florenceville, NB
E7L 3P6
(506) 392-5584
Oakley Smith, Extension Forester
1 (506) 391-6758
(506) 392-8290
Have a question about your woodlot, or want to get more involved with the Association? We'd love to hear from you.
CV Marketing Board Staff
The people behind the Association, here to help woodlot owners, contractors and truckers across Carleton and Victoria counties.
Chantal Coté-DeMerchant
Silviculture Manager, Licensed Scaler
Worked at CVWPA since 2016
Oakley Smith
Extension Forester
Worked at CVWPA since 2026
Our Services
Our association continues to provide woodlot owners and loggers with technical advice and assistance along with marketing services. We offer a wide variety of forest management related services, which are outlined below.
Land Management
The Land Management Services Program offers the woodlot owner a complete package that includes: a complete management plan (with or without inventory) that addresses the silvicultural, harvest, recreational and wildlife needs of your woodlot. We are an independent service that can plan and supervise a harvesting operation to ensure you receive the maximum value.
Enhanced Forest Inventory
We can use LiDAR technology to get a clearer picture of what's growing on your woodlot. This helps us identify the types of wood on your property and estimate how much volume is there, giving you better information to plan your management and harvesting.
Mapping
We can map the boundaries and stands on your woodlot using detailed map layers. Options include slope, canopy height, hillshade and high-quality imagery, giving you a clear view of your land and how it's laid out.
Professional Walk-Throughs
We can take a short walk through your land with you to explain what's happening in your woodlot. Along the way, we'll offer recommendations on what to do next and go over any options that may be available to you through silviculture.
Boundary Maintenance
We mark the boundary lines of your property. Good boundary lines make good neighbours and should be repainted every 5-10 years to avoid survey costs.
Road Location / Block Layout
Our staff can use our mapping resources to obtain information available from aerial photos. These photos outline your property and provide detail that can save a lot of walking time on the property.
Silviculture Programs Through CVWPA
The Carleton-Victoria Wood Producers has the following silviculture activities available to woodlot owners in Carleton and Victoria Counties that are funded through the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) silviculture program.
Pre-Commercial Thinning
Reduces the number of stems on a young, overcrowded site using a thinning saw, so the best crop trees get more space, light and nutrients to grow. It applies to dense softwood and hardwood regeneration before it reaches merchantable size, and follows set standards for stocking, height and spacing to make sure only genuinely overstocked stands qualify.
Mechanical Pre-Commercial Thinning and Cleaning (Trial)
A trial treatment that achieves the same goal as manual pre-commercial thinning, but uses a machine-mounted shear or saw head instead of a handheld saw. It's suited to slightly taller stands and follows similar density, stocking and quality standards, with added limits on the width of cut trails.
Plantation Cleaning
Removes natural regeneration that's crowding out planted softwood seedlings, using a thinning saw. It applies once ingrowth is significantly interfering with the planted crop trees, and includes a higher-density option for especially thick plantations.
Early Plantation Cleaning (Trial)
A trial option for young softwood plantations where herbicide release was missed, didn't work, or isn't suitable because the site sits close to a home or in an environmentally sensitive area. Manual cleaning is used instead, within a defined summer treatment window.
Site Preparation
Uses trenching, dragging or plowing equipment to expose mineral soil and knock back competing vegetation ahead of planting. It applies to harvested softwood and mixed sites, and in some cases former agricultural fields, so seedlings have enough open planting spots to take hold.
Fill Planting
Tops up a site where natural softwood regeneration is present but falls short of full stocking, adding seedlings into the gaps rather than replanting the whole area. It's usually followed by a herbicide treatment to protect the new seedlings from competing vegetation.
Full Planting
Establishes a new stand with nursery seedlings on sites where natural regeneration hasn't come in well enough on its own. It generally follows site preparation, and is usually followed by a herbicide release treatment to give seedlings the best chance to establish.
Herbicide for Site Preparation and Plantation Release
Applies a forestry-registered herbicide, by air or ground, either to prepare a site for planting or to release already-planted seedlings from competing hardwood, brush and weeds that are overtopping them. Timing and permits are closely regulated to protect seedling health and the surrounding environment.
Herbicide for Natural Regeneration Release
Similar to plantation release, but aimed at protecting desirable natural softwood regeneration — rather than planted seedlings — from being overtaken by hardwood, brush or herbaceous competition.
Woodlot Management Recommendations
A full written management plan for a property, prepared by a Registered Professional Forester or Certified Forest Technician. It includes a forest inventory, maps and ten-year recommendations covering timber, wildlife habitat, water quality and climate adaptation, and can be completed once every five years per property.
Commercial Thinning
Removes lower-potential stems from older plantations or pre-commercially thinned stands to give the best remaining trees more room to grow into higher-value products. Careful attention is paid to windthrow risk, extraction trail spacing, and leaving a consistent, well-distributed stand behind.
Hardwood Stand Improvement
Targets hardwood-dominated stands to remove lower-quality or at-risk stems and favour the best-formed trees, improving long-term growth and value. It applies to stands with a strong hardwood component that haven't been harvested in the past 10 years.
Alternative Harvest Operating Plan
Supports harvest methods other than clearcutting, aimed at maintaining and regenerating tolerant, long-lived species such as sugar maple, spruce, white pine and cedar. A written prescription is required, along with a signed landowner agreement on the plan's objectives.
Plantation Performance Monitoring (Year 3 and Year 8 or 9)
Tracks how a plantation is developing at the three-year and eight-or-nine-year marks, checking stocking and competition levels to decide whether a release or cleaning treatment is needed. This ongoing monitoring helps catch problems early enough to keep a plantation on track.
Newsletter
Catch up on the latest news from CVWPA. As new issues are published, past newsletters stay archived here.
September 2026
Carleton Victoria Newsletter
Inside this issue: the Carbon Credit Program update, a full silviculture report, a landowner perspective from Ricky Watson, lessons from a study trip to Norway, market news, and results from this year's woodsman competition.
- Carleton Victoria silviculture work
- Landowner perspective — A Walk Through the Woods
- Lessons from Norway & Market Updates
- From Log to Legend & the Extension Program
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Resources
Provincial marketing boards across New Brunswick.
Provincial Marketing Boards
Madawaska Forest Products Marketing Board
640, boulevard Isidore-BoucherSt-Jacques, N.B.
E7B 1Y4, Canada
North Shore Forest Products Marketing Board
2807 Miramichi Ave, P.O. Box 386Bathurst, New Brunswick
E2A 3Z3
Northumberland Forest Products Marketing Board
271 McMurdo StreetMiramichi, NB
SENB Forest Products Marketing Board
3384 Route 132, Scoudouc, NB, E4P 3S7Mailing: P.O. Box 5074, Shediac NB, E4P 8T8
SNB Forest Products Marketing Board
13 Drurys Cove RoadLower Cove, New Brunswick
YSC Forest Products Marketing Board
680 Strickland Lane, Fredericton, NB, E3C 2G6Mailing: P.O. Box 424, Station A, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Z9
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151 Perkins Way
Florenceville, NB
E7L 3P6
Monday – Friday
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
(506) 392-5584
Oakley Smith, Extension Forester
1 (506) 391-6758
(506) 392-8290
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