Seventy-five percent of the annuai harvest in any T.S.A. must be processed in the T.S.A.

A basic principle of forestry in British Columbia should be that local forest harvests
will primarily benetit a local economy. This premise is increasingly being violated

by the opening of sawmills that require sawlog volumes from a 200 to 500 mile radius.
No corporation should be allowed to impoverish a community only for the sake of an
increment of profit.

Sustained yields will be calculated on a creekshed or watershed component basis. Annual
harvest rates will be set by the agglomerated sustainable yield of watershed units being
actively harvested.

Annual allowable cuts are currently based on the annual growth increment af entire
forest administration units. This policy allows the complete annual growth increment to
be taken only trom the area being actively logged. The result is drastic overharvest of
some areas, while more remote forests are never touched. To overcome this inequity it
iS necessary to allow each watershed to be harvested only to its individual ability to
sustain itself.

Harvest plans in any creekshed or watershed component will specify cut and utilization
of the full timber profile. First pass high grade harvesting will be disallowed.

Much of the industrial logging that occurs today is based on harvest of the best quality
trees on the ‘first pass’ through a forest. Although lower quality trees are intended to be
harvested at a later date, there is concern that the economics of the ‘second pass’ will
not justify their harvest. In this scenario there is no sustainable management of the
forest. It would be more prudent to require a representative range of tree types to be
harvested in ali passes, thus insuring that there would always be a quantity of high
quality trees to subsidize removal of timber of lesser value.

All cutblocks will be designed to minimize viewscape disruption. A formal landscape
management plan will be required as part of every creekshed or watershed component
Narvest plan.

It is no longer possible to practice clearcut logging near communities, along heavily
fraveled transportation routes, or adjacent to parks and ecological reserves without
consideration of viewscape impacts. If industrial logging is to coexist with both the
tourism indusiry, and changing landscape values of B.C. residents, there is no choice but
fo dramatically increase awareness and preservation of viewsheds.

No clearcut opening larger than 15 hectares will be allowed.

The practice of wholesale clearcut logging is one of the most controversial aspects of
present industrial logging. While many North American governments have restricted
the allowable size of clearcuts, there has been no such move in British Columbia. To
insure that ecosystem stability and diversity is preserved, it is critical that ‘patch'
logging be substituted for the current practices which decimate forest ecosystems.