Cabin continues to grow to 10 full time and seasonal staff and branches into small scale salvage to assist with the recovery of timber at the outset of the unprecedented mountain pine beetle infestation in the province. Highlights in this period include winning the new business of the year in Vernon in 2001 and growing the salvage side of the business to match revenues from the forestry services side.

A new era of Cabin begins with Steve as the sole owner working with a smaller team of 6 at a new office in Ellison, at the north end of Kelowna. The focus remains on forest development and small-scale salvage projects for industry and government clients in the Okanagan Valley.

Cabin’s small scale salvage program continues to grow and leads to forest health/fuel mitigation treatments to protect cabins along Beaver and Oyama lakes.

With the unprecedented mountain pine beetle outbreak in the Province, Cabin’s development team grows to 10 and includes a new GIS department. The crew is a diverse bunch of men and women, including a francophone, First Nations Forest technicians, young forest professionals, and some wily veterans.

The worst downturn in 50 years hits the forest industry hard. Cabin adapts by creating a recreation trail project in the Okanagan Valley that improves the epic 110 km long High Rim Trail that traverses from Kalamalka Lake Park in Vernon to Chute Lake near Naramata. A crew of 12 works for 8 months learning as they go, building a magnificent recreation trail across challenging landscapes.

Coming out of the great recession and with new trail building skills in hand, Cabin begins working on various recreation projects every year. These include recreation trails, linear parks, and urban parks for municipal governments and BC Parks in the Okanagan Valley.

Shake ups in the forest industry led to opportunities for Cabin to expand the forestry division to 20 staff and dependent contractors, increase the size of the GIS department, and add new First Nations and Industry clients in the Okanagan and Kootenays. Cabin develops over 1 million cubic metres of timber in one year, which is a milestone for the company.

Seizing opportunities in the expanding recreation sector, Cabin dedicates a full-time team to develop a Recreation Division that grows to include projects in the Kootenays as well as the Okanagan.

Cabin now has over 40 full time and seasonal staff working across the Forestry and Recreation divisions in offices in Vernon and Castlegar, B.C.

The Wildfire Division continues to grow to include 4 full time staff and take on fuel mitigation treatments in the Kootenays and Okanagan.

The Kootenay office is moved to Nelson, returning to the Cabin’s birthplace after nearly 20 years away, and supports the continued growth of the Forestry Division led by Mike Crone, which grows to over 45 full time employees, with a number of clients in B.C. and Alberta.

The Wildfire Division continues to thrive, providing tactical wildfire planning, fuel management prescriptions, implementation, and suppression services to clients throughout BC. Wildfire grows to support a full-time team of 10 people.

The Recreation division takes on it’s largest, most challenging, projects to date including construction a new boardwalk in MacMillan Provincial Park and upgrading the City Park Promenade in Kelowna.