Community forest, smaller harvest tenures, fewer clear-cuts among alternate management practices on meeting agenda
In the wake of sawmill curtailments and shutdowns and the permanent closure of Canfor’s pulp line at Prince George Pulp and Paper, a group of concerned stakeholders is gathering Feb. 28 at UNBC to discuss future of our forests and how they should be managed to increase sustainability and maximize job potential.
“We’re one of the few municipalities that doesn’t have a community forest. I think where we need to go with the tenure on the land base is getting the public resource into the hands of smaller operations that can add value to our products and will provide a lot more employment per unit as timber harvested because right now we don’t have that. We have huge super mills chewing through our forests and there’s less and less being given in return for that.
Morris, who has a long history of operating a fur-bearing animal trapline, has seen firsthand the effects of clearcut logging on wildlife and he says forest practices have to change to prevent animal extinctions. Morris says there’s a lack of understanding about what happens to wildlife populations after an area has been harvested and he’s read enough scientific studies to realize what current clearcutting practices are doing to destroy animal habitat.
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