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Out of Burns Lake and Houston, delivering resource and industrial development across Northern BC for over 45 years.
Years in Northern BC
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The Tahtsa Group started in the early 1980s with a single logging truck under Klaus Posselt Logging. In 1996 Tahtsa Timber was formed, and later Pacific Timber, building sawmills to turn timber that was being wasted into a real product and more local jobs.
Four decades on, the group runs multiple companies and partnerships across most natural-resource sectors and is one of the largest employers in the region. Through mill closures, downturns and hard fire seasons, the focus has stayed the same: keep our people working and do right by the communities we call home.
We stay diverse on purpose. It is how we keep crews working year-round and meet clients wherever a job takes us, from a single load to a multi-year contract.
Full-scale, stump-to-dump harvesting: mechanized, conventional and non-conventional.
Logs, lumber, grind and chips, low bedding and multi-configuration hauls.
Building and maintaining resource roads and bridges.
Mobile chipping and grinding, dead wood and wildfire salvage, and vegetation management.
Site development, clearing and civil earthworks for resource and community projects.
Thinning stands to manage growth and reduce wildfire fuel loads.
Fuel reduction and salvage to protect communities, Nations and Territories.
Two full-service workforce accommodation camps and logistical supports.
Planning and coordinating resource projects from start to finish.
Access matting, pad and camp lumber, drilling support, earthworks and access trails.
Access matting, logistics and support services for the energy sector.
Access matting and products dedicated to supporting the energy sector.
Leaving a legacy by building a future
Family-owned. Community-first. Working the land the right way.
Multiple companies and partnerships, one set of values. Each one does its own work, and together they take a project from conception to completion.
The family-owned parent group tying every company together since the early 1980s.
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Stump-to-dump harvesting, thinning, wildfire mitigation and residual fibre.
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Custom lumber, cants and timbers milled from salvaged and low-grade wood.
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Remote workforce accommodation and logistics for crews away from home.
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Where it all began. Harvesting and trucking, now under Tahtsa Timber.
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We keep crews working through downturns and fire seasons, not just the good years.
Four decades of doing the work ourselves, from one truck to multiple companies and partnerships.
Think Safe! Be Safe! BC Forest Safety and SAFE Certified across our operations.
Long-term joint ventures with Nations built on shared work and trust.
Multiple companies and partnerships across most resource sectors means we can take on the whole job.
Local hiring, local suppliers, and real support for the places we live and work.
We are one of the top employers in the Bulkley-Nechako, and we take that seriously. Over the years the group has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars, plus machine time, materials and volunteer hours, to youth, recreation, arts and community development across the region.
From minor hockey to the local food centre, supporting the communities that support us is not a marketing line. It is how we were built.
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We partner with Nations, contractors and local businesses on some of the biggest resource projects in the region. Tahtsa is always looking for the right partners for the right projects.
From access matting for seniors housing to running the early works for the region’s newest ore processing mine, here is a look at just a few projects on the ground.
Based in Burns Lake and Houston, working throughout the Bulkley-Nechako and beyond. If your project is in the North, chances are we can get there.
Planning a project or thinking about working with us? Here are the things people ask most.
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