A pair of new provincial efforts aim to keep BC’s logs in BC, and the workers who harvest them employed.
As a result of the province’s Coast Revitalization Initiative, the new tools will help government ensure BC’s mills have access to the fibre they need.
Forests Minister Doug Donaldson says increases to an existing fee-in-lieu will allow them to more precisely evaluate individual cutblocks.
Donaldson says that more economically viable stands will be subject to higher fees than those with low value species, or remote accessibility.
Those remote cutblocks deemed “uneconomical” will now be able to continue to operate, helping to retain jobs in rural forestry communities.
Forest communities in the Nass, mid-coast, North Coast, northwest Interior, Haida Gwaii, and the Soo Timber Supply Area will all be included to allow continued harvesting at otherwise uneconomical stands.
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