Backroad Contracting vegetation management spray truck with water tanks and side-by-side trailer at a wellsite

Certified Applicators

Vegetation & Noxious Weed Management

Vegetation management and noxious weed control for industrial, commercial and rural clients throughout Northeast British Columbia.

Vegetation & Weed Control Programs

Backroad Contracting provides vegetation management and noxious weed control for industrial, commercial and rural clients across the Peace Region. Uncontrolled growth on a lease or right-of-way costs sightlines, drainage and compliance, and noxious weeds spread quickly along the road and pipeline network once they take hold.

Work is planned around the site: an operating lease that has to stay clear, a roadside or right-of-way that needs a repeat program each season, or freshly reclaimed ground that needs weeds controlled while the seeded cover establishes.

  • Industrial sites
  • Well leases
  • Roadsides
  • Rights-of-way
  • Rural properties
  • Reclamation areas

Remote & Fly-In Weed Control

A large share of the work in Northeast BC sits well past the end of maintained road. Backroad Contracting carries out remote weed spraying and noxious weed control at difficult-access locations, including off-road sites and locations that are only reachable during certain seasons or over winter access.

Where conventional access is unavailable, crews, equipment and supplies can be mobilized to site with helicopter support. The helicopter is used for transportation into the location — application is performed on the ground by certified personnel, and Backroad Contracting does not own or operate the aircraft.

  • Remote sites
  • Off-road locations
  • Seasonal-access locations
  • Winter-access locations
  • Helicopter-supported mobilization where conventional access is unavailable

From the Field

Vegetation Management Crews at Work

Helicopter lifting a personnel basket on a longline into a remote weed control site in Northeast BC
Helicopter longline access to a remote location
Spray drone operating over a right-of-way with a support truck and water tanks
Drone support on a right-of-way
Certified applicator spraying vegetation at a wellsite tank battery
Applicator working a wellsite tank battery
Applicator spraying around pipeline supports at a gas facility
Spraying around facility piping
Crew hand-pulling noxious weeds along a cutline in Northeast BC
Hand-pulling noxious weeds on a cutline
Worker carrying a bundle of hand-pulled oxeye daisy at a lease site
Hand-pulled oxeye daisy bagged for removal
Two side-by-sides crossing a reclaimed lease surface during a weed control pass
Working a reclaimed lease surface

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Where We Work

Crews travel out of the Fort St. John area to leases, roads and rural property throughout the Peace Region, including remote industrial locations north and west of the highway network.

  • Fort St. John
  • Montney
  • Charlie Lake
  • Cecil Lake
  • Taylor
  • Wonowon
  • Pink Mountain
  • North Pine
  • Buick
  • Prespatou
  • Hudson's Hope

Working somewhere else in Northeast British Columbia? Call and we will tell you whether we can get a crew to the site.


Qualifications & Certifications

  • Industrial Vegetation & Noxious Weed Control Applicator Certified
  • Pesticide Applicator Assistant Certified

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