CBC -- Vancouver Province, p.32, Canadian Press, 30/07/97 --CBC-TV's The National reported last night that B.C. logging companies are wasting millions of tonnes of rain-forest timber each year. After top-grade lumber at sites on the Queen Charlottes is selected for shipment, second-rate wood is discarded and often burned or buried by such companies as MacMillan Bloedel. CBC said more than three million tonnes of wood, 100,000 truckloads, are dumped each year. The waste wood is not considered garbage by sawmill operators as Gary Schnidel who says the reason why companies won't sell or give away this wood is the long-term sustainable yield, but if we don't cut at the levels, a lot of this would become more decadent, it would fall down and wouldn't be utilized...It does lose an economic opportunity. John Foster Box 271, Clearwater, B.C. VOE INO Ph: 250-587-6402 Fax: 250-587-6432
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