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In Article <CA3Jus.34s@freenet.carleton.ca> af017@Freenet.carleton.ca
(David R. Smith) writes: 

>Here
>are some basic facts about reforestation that may be relevant
>in pointing to the gap between logging and replanting:
>
>      total     ann allowble    area     total nsr    replnted
>    productve     cut         harv.ann.   land         annually
>     forest        
>
>BC   56million   97 million   539,000    588,000    110,000
>        acres     cub yds       acres     acres      acres
>
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I checked the BC Ministry of Forests Annual Report and found the following:

Total Productive Forest, Crown Land:  45,596,000 ha

AAC, Ministry Regulated Lands:        72,500,000 m3
  (includes some private land)
Volume Harvested, Ministry Regulated: 66,000,000 m3
  (includes some private land)

Area Harvested, Crown Land:              166,350 ha
Area Replanted, Crown Land:              196,043 ha
Seedlings planted, Crown Land:       226,849,000

NSR area, Crown Land:                  1,529,480 ha
  (includes natural & man made
   causes)
NSR area, responsibility of Forest
companies:                               496,920 ha
  (all area within 6-7 year free
   to grow regeneration
   period allowed by ministry)

My statistics show that the AAC was undercut by 6.5 million m3, that
30,000ha was planted over what was cut, and that all historical NSR area in
the province exists as the responsibility of Government, not Forest
Companies. During this fiscal year, .36 percent of the productive Crown
Land in the province was harvested.

Rape and Pillage are far from appropriate terms.  In light of the
statistics, they seem rather silly.
-- 
Robert Froese  VE7MOQ
taganov biogeocoenose approach                  "Clearcutting is not a Crime"
taganov@unixg.ubc.ca