On Monday, December 10, Premier Dexter announced that the province was buying the Bowater Mersey woodlands, and that portions of them would be given over to community forests.
That was just six weeks ago, and Christmas intervened, but people have hit the ground running. …There have been questions about what community forests are, and how they work. Some have had concerns about the concept, wondering whether there will be fewer tax dollars and limitations on the ability of sawmills to get the logs they require for lumber. Neither is true.
Jan 25, 2013
Queens County Advance
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