Powell River Community Forest

Logging on city lands creates revenue

Powell River Peak

Powell River Community Forest made a profit of close to $750,000 from logging city-owned property this year. At the Tuesday, August 18, City of Powell River committee of the whole meeting, Greg Hemphill, president of community forest board of directors, and Chris Laing, manager of forest operations, spoke regarding the management strategy for the community forest and other municipal forest lands. Hemphill reminded councillors that the community forest had made a presentation to council in October 2014 regarding opportunities at the airport reserve and other city-owned lands. “Since that time we have conducted operations and you can say, at this stage, we are at a substantial completion,” Hemphill said. “We thought we’d give you a summary of how the harvesting went and some of the reforestation activities.”

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