Canfor’s AAC on Tree Farm Licence 30 Boosted
Prince George, B.C. – Canfor’s allowable annual cut for tree farm licence 30 has been boosted.
A notice from the Deputy Chief Forester, Jim Sutherland, says the company will be allowed to cut 412,500 cubic metres, up from 330 thousand cubic meters.
Tree Farm Licence 30 is located about 50 kms northeast of Prince George, and covers an area of 180,347 hectares, of which 122,516 hectares are available for timber harvesting.
"From 2003 to 2008, Canfor focused its harvesting on areas affected by the mountain pine beetle and because Tree Farm Licence 30 is not in a beetle-impacted area, Canfor did not harvest the full allowable annual cut for this tree farm licence. This was a significant factor in my finding that I was able to increase the level of cut sustainably."
The dominant tree species in this tree farm licence are spruce and subalpine fir. Other coniferous trees include lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock. Some deciduous species are also present, including aspen, birch and cottonwood.
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I came through the darby last summer and there is an all weather road pushed through from the north olsen to the darby now. We came across some cut blocks that had so much unprocessed stacked logs that it would boggle the mind. That is right in the area they are currently talking about. My question is, why was this cut and left unprocessed for so long (it was not bug kill) because I know that a lot of blocks were done at 25 cents stumpage to make doing bug kill profitable, but along with that all other species of tree went for the same stumpage price. The stumpage is now coming back in line as the bug kill is running out. Was all this wood pre-cut to avoid the higher stumpage rates? And if it isn’t hauled right away is it still considered part of their annual cut? They may have been below their annual cut because a lot of what they cut is still in the bush. Now when their increase is allowed they will get more money for the timber already laying on the ground. Was it canfor that Bell got hired at as a purchasing rep?
I am curious which mill(s) will be processing the timber; I think that this is good news for the local work force providing that the logs are not shipped overseas for processing…
The Darby is now called the Olsen with resepect to the new road Huh is referring to. You can either come off to Highway 97 on the old Darby or cut off North along the power line straight into the back of Canfor Polar, allowing off highway loads from this are right into Bear Lake.
IF the whole logs will be shipped, it will be because of the cost of processing = high union rates. Keep in mind though, we would still have an active logging industry.
Definitely, all of the timber should be processed here.
TFL 30 has a CSA Sustainable Forest Management certification. Under that “green stamp” the wood processing location is monitored to ensure it is processed locally.
” I know that a lot of blocks were done at 25 cents stumpage to make doing bug kill profitable, but along with that all other species of tree went for the same stumpage price.”
I believe that is incorrect.
25 cents stumpage is plain coffee table talk – no substance!!!
25 cent wood is prorated to full stumpage and green wood.
Axman, you are right.
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