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The alphabet
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he province of B.C. has

80.7 million hectares of

Crown provincial land.
That's about 85 percent of the total
area of the province. Of this 80.7
million hectares of land, about half
is productive forest and about half
of that is available and suitable for
logging. This means that there are
roughly 20 million hectares of
forest in the province that are
available for harvest.

The Ministry of Forests is res-
ponsible for managing and protect-
ing the forest and range land in
our province, and according to a
ministry release titled Resource
Management, their mandate is
"...to provide maximum benefits to
all British Columbians". The min-
istry does not have a mandate to
regulate resource management on
private or federal forest lands,
however, except under special
management agreements, for fire
protection, or for specified timber
Management.

Under the Canadian constitution,
provincial governments are respon-
sible for managing the timber
resources on provincial Crown
(public) land, and in B.C. enacted
statutes provide for a legal frame-
work for a system of forest tenure,
giving forest companies the right
to harvest, and sustained yield
management, a balance between
the annual growth of wood and the
annual harvest.

In order to do this, the province
has divided the province into 69
units. Thirty-four of these have
been delegated to specific forest
companies through a timber tenure
agreement called a Tree Farm
Licence (TFL) while the remaining

35 are referred to as Timber

Supply Areas (TSA). According to
the minisfry, they are responsible
for all aspects of forest manage-
ment in each of these 69 units and
all are managed for sustained
yield. In TSA’s, forest companies

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portfolios would be moved — ie.
environment’s John Reynolds,
highways’ Rita Johnston or
forests’ Graham Bruce, the mid-
Vancouver Island MLA who was
among four who defected from
the Socred caucus last fall in the
wake of the Cariboo byelection
loss. .

How could the premier "re-
ward" Bruce with a deckchair on
the Titanic without making sev-
eral loyal, long-serving backbench

MLAs more than a little angry
and disillusioned?

Everyone from the Okanagan’s
Larry Chalmers and Cliff
Serwa to Powell River’s Harold
Long and Langley’s Dan
Peterson would have reason to
be more than a little ticked off if
that occurred.

Stay, as they say, tuned!

manage the timber resource accor-
ding to strategic Resource Manage-
ment Plans — different forms of
tenure — prepared by the ministry.
Overall management responsibility,
however, still belongs to the pro-
vince.

To this point, we have looked at
tenure in very general terms, but
now it’s time to look at these
different forms of tenure in more

detail. To do this, we’ve divided -

the various types of tenure into
three basically similar groups. The
first group consists of Tree Farm
Licences, Forest Licences and
Woodlot Licenses.

Tree Farm Licences are a
"stewardship" agreement over a
sustained-yield management unit
with fixed boundaries that includes
the right to harvest a specified
volume of timber annually. TFL’s
require the forest company to carry
out all phases of forest manage-
ment on behalf of the ministry and
the agreements have a 25- year
term, replaceable every 10 years,

A Woodlot Licence is very simi-
lar to a TFL. The major difference
is one of scale. While a TFL may
consist of hundreds of thousands
of hectares, a Woodlot consists of
not more than 400 hectares of
Crown land plus any size of pri-
vately owned land. Woodlot
Licences carry a 15-year term and
are renewable every five years,

A Forest Licence allows an
orderly timber harvest over a por-
tion of a “sustained-yield manage-

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Reforestation of harvested areas .
fails under a ministry Resource
Management Plan for the TSA and
carries a term of between 15 and
20 years and, in most cases, is
renewable. Unlike a TFL, a Forest
Licence is a part of a TSA and

doesn’t have defined boundaries.
Harvesting takes place within TSA

boundaries but particular logging
sites vary. When one site is har-
vested and reforested the logging
company moves to a new location
within the TSA.

ith these differences
W out of the way, lets
look at something

common to all three forms of
tenure: the Annual Allowable Cut.

To do this, we'll examine anima- &

ginary 100,000 hectare TFL. To
determine the AAC in our ficti-

tious TFL, the ministry will use an

arbitrary figure of 3.5 cubic metres
per hectare. This means we will be

" permitted’“to’ cut 350,000 ‘cubic

metres of wood every year. The
number 3.5 is an average used by
the Ministry of forests and is sup-
posed to represent the cubic metres
of new forest that will regencrated
each year. In other words, as the

ment unit" or Timber Supply Area. logging company is cutting
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350,000 cubic metres of wood
each year, 350,000 cubic metres is
replaced in new growth.

There are a few problems with
the figure of 3.5 cubic metres,
however. The number is based on
what is called a Site Index Curve.
A Site Index Curve determines the
height of a tree after 100 years of
growth and from this the number
of cubic metres is determined. That
number is then divided by 100 to
arrive at the average growth per
year.

In our area, and for that matter in

ihe entire province, there isn’t a lot
of data to back up the land’s
ability to regenerate a new crop of
trees. Test trees are used to deter-
mine the Site Index Curve but
these are few and far between.
There are very few test trees in the
province.

Next week we'll conclude this
segment by playing with a few
numbers as we begin harvesting
our imaginary TFL to see what
might be in our future. Or, in fact,
if we have any future at all.

| TO ALL MY PATIENTS,
| | will be leaving the Terrace/Kitimat area

the last week of August. My last office day for
Terrace was Tuesday, August 21, 1990.

Mills Memorial Hospital is currently adver-

B tising for another pediatrician. Arrangements
| will be made for me to come on a visitation
consultation basis every two to three months
unti! a replacement is found. Dates to be set

later.

K.O. Asante, M.D.,

CH.B., F.R.C.P. (C).

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