BC Timber Sales, the provincial corporation responsible for auctioning the harvesting rights, tells Downie Timber it must fulfil its logging contract - or pay full stumpage fees for the trees left standing
company that wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.’s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them standing, its chief forester said.
But BC Timber Sales, the provincial corporation responsible for auctioning the harvesting rights for about 20 per cent of B.C.’s annual allowable cut,told Downie it must fulfill itscontract – or pay full stumpage fees for the trees left standing, Rouck said, referring to payments to the government for logging on public land.
In response to a request for comment, the Forests Ministry said Downie could choose to resume harvesting and cut around the old growth, which was identified as part of B.C.’s process to defer logging in the most ecologically at-risk areas. Petryshen said he’s walked through the forests within both of Downie’s cut blocks, describing the valley-bottom areas as particularly “spectacular.” Some of the cedar and hemlock trees measure more than two metres in diameter, he said.
B.C. government mapping shows 50 per cent of one of Downie’s cut blocks north of Revelstoke overlaps with an old-growth deferral area. The second block also overlaps, but by a smaller amount. The Okanagan Nation Alliance issued a statement last August demanding that the province protect old growth and caribou throughout its territory.
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