Experience
CUSL has acted as primary-contractor as well as subcontractor on many projects, often concurrently. Since being amalgamated into Canadian Utility Services, our expertise’s includes community development, Aboriginal partnerships, design and resource engineering. With over 50 years expertise in project management, our team has worked on projects from the East coast, Arctic, Rocky Mountains and the West Coast rain forests.
Since 1996, Canadian Utility Services Ltd has done multiple jobs from surveying, clear cuts, block cutting and thinning, planting, site prep, road building, Mountain Pine Beetle survey and control, Firesmart, Right-of-Way clearing, mulching, timber cruising, boundary line maintenance, etc..
For the last twelve years CUSL has been mainly working throughout Alberta under the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) survey and control program with Alberta Sustainable Resources and Development (ASRD). We also have worked in Saskatchewan for the past four years under the MPB monitoring, baiting, and surveying programs with the Department of Environment. Surveying is comprised of aerial surveying where personnel are in a helicopter and infected sites are recorded using GPS units. It also includes ground survey; points are provided by ASRD and using GPS to locate the site. A mini survey of each site is completed and the number or infected trees are flagged and marked for control.
CUSL also completed 2 large FireSmart contracts for the city of Whitecourt this past winter and a large Firesmart project in Cypress Hills Provincial Park. The area was thinned and pruned in an effort to prevent the spread of a forest fire. Trees where both manually and mechanically felled and all timber and brush were mulched. Included in this project was the development of the Whitecourt Tube and Ski Hill which trails where cut, developed and established glade trails for skiers where constructed as well.
CUSL has also worked on a transmission line projects in Labrador, Alberta, Northwest Territories and had to create access trails to the different worksites. In order for pick-up trucks to gain access, CUS mulched all trees and shrubs to the ground, leaving no stumps behind. The mulch was spread out to an even depth of no less than 6”. CUS had to install culverts and temporary bridges to minimize the impact on streams, rivers, drainage, etc. CUS also had to spread topsoil along these trails to prevent water from collecting in low lying areas creating rutting and impacting the environment.
CUSL has worked in the Canmore area dealing with MPB and a multitude of stake holders from private residents to local district body’s, community groups, towns and parks staff to regional ESRD spokes people concerning burning and removal of infected MPB trees in the Canmore Nordic centre.