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emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes:

>evan.gough@kbsbbs.com (EVAN GOUGH) writes:


>I'm not so sure that a clearcut is a clearcut is a clearcut. The sizes of 
>clearcuts can vary drastically, for one thing, and I still haven't been 
>convinced that clearcutting is always bad. I think you really need to 

Neither am I. I am, however convinced that the logging companies 
basically refuse to do anythint other than clearcutting unless they are
almost tied to a tree.  I've seen LOTS, and LOTS and LOTS of examples of
clearcutting in areas where it's obviously a stupid thing to do.

>look at each location, the terrain, the type of timber, the kind of 
>access, etc to decide whether the timber should be cut, and then what is 
>both economical, safe and environmentally responsible way to log it.

>While there are certainly areas where logging hasn't improved enough, 
>hopefully the new Forest Practices Act and regulations will provide the 
>government with the tools to insist on better logging - and also enforce 
>it. 

The new FPA seems to only prevent clearcutting where people can see the 
damage it does.
It doesn't really seem to do that much to improve the situation in that
respect.

+> I've seen valley after valley of continuous clearcuts.  In short, I've
+> stared these so called "improved logging practices" in the face for the
+> last five years or so and in my opinion, they are nowhere to be seen.
+> They are fictitious.  The logging companies say these things simply to
+> placate us.

Don McMillan, One of the high officials of Fletcher Challenge's new
logging spinoff mentioned, last week, that the new logging code was
"rather late in the day". I asked him, after his presentation what he
meant by that comment.  He said that things are so bleak now, that the
people of BC are going to have "rather high expectations".

This was a bleaker explanation than I had hoped for.
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Only when the last fish is caught, the last river poisoned, the last tree cut-
Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. (Cree prophesy)