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SOCREDS LIQUIDATING OUR FORESTS
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Don Lockstead, NDP member for McKenzie, came upon the devastation shown in these
pictures last Spring. It is the wasteland left from a Doman’s show, at Kimsquit, near the head of
Dean’s Channel. Much of this once prime timber, especially the spruce and hemlock, was rotting.

Lockstead met with Forest Service officials immediately. He was told that Domans had been
ordered back to do the logging, or pay waste stumpage.

Lockstead doesn’t believe it. :

“The Forest Service makes this kind of thing possible by keeping it quiet. That stuff has been
lying there for at least three years. Why weren’t they ordered back to do the logging long ago?”

“And now they have moved on to another block, and they’re high-grading it for export,
hauling it through the wasteland that they have left behind.”

“They're bucking off this new stuff down to a fifteen-inch top, in violation of the Forest Act,
which requires everything down to four inches to be taken out.”

“T am calling for an independent Commission of Inquiry into this. It has to stop.”

“T think there is about eight million feet lying there rotting. We'll see how much stumpage
Domans pays, but no matter how much stumpage is finally paid, the tragedy of good timber left
to rot will still be there.” = i :

“And the stuff that they do salvage will all go to log exports, every stick of it. There’s all kinds
of outfits that would have been delighted with that wood, and provided employment with it.
Plywood plants have folded, unable to get good peelers.” “
*And at the same time, the Socreds allow this to happen. It’s a damn disgrace.”

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TOPS BUCKED TO 15" LOGS HIGH GRADED FOR EXPORT GOOD WOOD, ROTTING

Lumber Worker/October, 1984/5