ltisnolonger acceptable to allow British Columbia timber to be manufactured into relatively low value lumber and raw pulp products. Incentives will be putin place which reward forest industry corporations who institute value-added manufacturing techniques.

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6.22 Conversion Plant Consiruction/Operation | _ Conversion plant construction licenses shall be issued only upon provision of evidence that avallabie fibre supply from one or more Watershed Authority areas can sustainably support operation of the facility. Transfers of flore between Watershed Authority boundaries will only occur by consensus negotiation.

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Sawmills are currently being constructed across British Columbia which have the capacity to manufacture far more lumber than most companies have gucranteed timber supply for. This frend creates an insatiable demand for timber fibre, a demand not tied into the ability of forests to sustainably support harvest. By restricting sawmill size to the sustainable supply oflocal timber, capitalization of overly iarge timber manufacturing plants would cease.

Employment/ @ Bond . A fore:: company that owns a conversion plant shall post 1) an employment bond to insure worker retraining and/or relocation in the event of a plant closure, or downsizing, cue to iechnological change, and 2) an environmental bond to fund rehabilitation in the event of environmental damage.

Technological change in timber conversion plants has contributed to the lay-off of well over 20,000 people in the British Columbia forest industry over the last ten years, The forest industry owes itto workers who made billions of dollars profit possible to help them retrain foremployment - in other industries, In addition, forest industries are responsible for environmental damage that may be created by their activities,

6.24 Slivicuiture

Allsilvicultural practices shall be based primarily on utilization of processes Of natural regenera- tion. If planting of tree species is prescribed as a regeneration strategy, a full range of merchantable species indigenous to the site shail be planted. °

if sustainable extraction of natural resources Is to occur, regeneration of harvested environ- ments must be allowed to mimic the processes of naturalsuccession. The practice ofprejudicing natural regeneration of a full range of species, or of planting only a single species of tree in cut- over foresis, promotes a monoculture that is not ecologically or economically sound. A single variety of tree in a logged area can lead to devastating pest infestation, and a habitat unsuitable for the widest range of flora and fauna. ,

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Tree N ries A tree nursery shall be estabilehed In each Watershed Authority area. Nursery stock shail be

collected from the area local fo the nursery.

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