🚀 go-pugleaf

taganov@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Edgar Froese) writes:

>In article <1993Aug12.002812.24111@news.mentorg.com> jhurst@renfield.mentorg.com (Jim Hurst) writes:


>So it seems to me that a healthy approach in resolving land use conflicts,
>as well as improving general or specific economic benefits, would be to
....
>likely be accomplished through the sale of legal title to Crown Land and
>the establishment of park areas.

Not unlike selling the farmyard to the wolves.
   I believe that it was Galiano island that used to be about 75% owned by
MacMillan Bloedel.  The island has now apparently been logged almost bald.
This is not a good precedent.
  It's also much of the reason why those two young boys decided to get 
arrested early in the blockade - they live on Galiano.


>3.  Clearcutting takes advantage of economies of scale and is often the
>most economically efficient silvicultural system both in the long and
>short term.  This system may provide the opportunity to recover initial
>costs before discount rates have rendered them excessive.

  If the claim that clearcut land supports 1/4 the wood volume that the
original old-growth did is anywhere near accurate, then I think that the
claim clearcutting is efficient in the long term may take some serious
looking-at.

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