More Woodlots To Be Offered.

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Prince George, B.C. - The Province is going to  offer 60 tp 75 new woodlots over the nexdt three years.  That will bring  the total buymber of woodlots operating in the Province to about 900 by 2011.  The new licences will be offered throughout the province and will be advertised on BC Bid at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca. Bids have been received on three advertised tenures, one north of Campbell River, one north of Fort St. James and the third, southwest of Dawson Creek.

Woodlot licences are small, area-based tenures that combine private land with up to 800 hectares of Crown land on the Coast and 1,200 hectares of Crown land in the Interior, and are managed by individuals, groups, FirstNations or public institutions. They are replaceable tenures, awarded for 20 years.

There are currently 828 active woodlots that include about 546,000 hectares in British Columbia. In 2005, woodlot licensees generated an estimated $183 million in economic activity in B.C. and harvested just  over three million cubic metres of timber. Each woodlot generates jobs in planning, harvesting, road construction and maintenance, reforestation, silviculture and small-scale timber processing.

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