Clearwater Times, BC – April 25, 2011
“Up until three years ago I didn’t give much thought to the community forest … until we got laid off. Then it was a great blessing for us.” That was the testimony given by local logging contractor Dale Miller during Wells Gray Country Community Forest Corporation’s annual general meeting on April 14.
Logging for the community forest allowed him to keep employed 11 people after Weyerhaeuser closed down its local wood harvest operations, said Miller. All of those employed live in this area, he added. “The community forest was able to keep marketing wood in the worst market I’ve ever seen,” the local logger said. “I’d like to thank you on behalf of my crew.”
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