Editorial: A Haida Gwaii Community Forest has no need for a provincial partner

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February 19, 2018
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Offer from gov includes a condition to partner with BCTS

By Mark Walsh, Village of Queen Charlotte

BC Local News

February 16, 2018

The current community forest proposal for Haida Gwaii is a very bad deal for all permanent islands residents. Unlike the more than 80 community forests throughout BC where each community has complete control over managing their forests themselves (and reaping 100 per cent of the profit from their labour), this scheme will have the provincial government controlling all sales, then taking 50 per cent of whatever is left after expenses. …We really have no need for the B.C. government to be a partner in our community forests. In every way imaginable we will be better off for generations to come if the people of Haida Gwaii manage their community forests themselves.