The forest industry in the district provides approximately 1,700 jobs. This includes forest company jobs, contract loggers, truckers and silviculture workers. About 61,291 logging truck loads are hauled from the district to manufacturing centres - enough wood to build more than 33,000 houses. The district maintains 18 recreation sites and 50 kilometres of hiking trails, including trails near Wapiti and Onion lakes. Also in the district are over 400 kilometres of snowmobile trails which the district maintains in cooperation with local snowmobile clubs.
Species planted include white spruce, hybrid spruce and lodgepole pine.
There are more than 700 kilometres of Forest Service roads in the district. More than 260 ranchers use crown range land in the district to graze their livestock. The timber program manages timber harvesting in the district. The impacts of harvesting on other resource values, as well as concerns from other agencies and the public, must all be considered during the development of harvesting plans. Timber harvesting in Dawson Creek is a broad-based industry that encompasses all major methods of harvesting, from horse to helicopter logging.