Yes, I think this is true. I guess the reason is that BC has AAC(Allowable Annual Cut). People are counting the volume you cut each year but the area you cut each year. Guoliang Liu Faculty of Forestry The University of British Columbia Canada On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, John Foster wrote: > 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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