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In article <24h13pINN85j@larry.cs.ubc.ca> samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel) writes:
>taganov@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert Edgar Froese) writes:
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>   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.
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I believe that MacBlo still owns the Galiano land.  If I recall the story
correctly, the MacBlo plan was to convert the land from forestry uses to
residential, but since the Islands Trust seems to have a policy of
restricting population growth on the islands, they wouldn't permit MacBlo
to subdivide.  Why does MacBlo want to subdivide?  They do because the
land will see greater economic benefit in residential use than managed
forest.  Why does the Islands Trust restrict subdividing?  They do not
want more people in their backyards.  Why do Galiano residents dislike
MacBlo?  They prefer a big, free park at the expense of MacBlo who are
paying the taxes (and the capital carrying cost.)

>  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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If you take 1% of the trees in a given area per year using clearfelling or 1%
using selective logging, you still cut 100% in 100 years.  Selective or
no, you have still removed timber and effected the site.  Now why do you
believe that second growth trees in selective systems will automatically
become bigger than in clearfelling systems?

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"There will always be an apologist for Business As Ususal. A pleasure to
meet you, Robert"  _Jim_Hurst_

....Robert Froese  VE7MOQ                          taganov@unixg.ubc.ca