Demands are growing for continued community access to timber.
Vernon Morning Star
The Regional District of North Okanagan will write the Ministry of Forests and indicate support for area-based timber tenure for community forests and woodlots. It does not favour area-based tenure for major corporations. “There will be a huge impact on rural communities because we won’t be able to have community forests,” said director Eugene Foisy. Currently, about 60 per cent of the logging on B.C.’s Crown land occurs through volume-based licenses which allow companies to harvest a certain volume of timber in an area.
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