How many jobs?
Let's talk about jobs!

As I adventure around the backroads of the region with my Dualsport M/C. I can't help but notice the carnage and waste left by our forest companies that harvest these cut blocks. There is no replanting. I also fail to understand while there is already access roads and much available timber in the non visible areas, why we continue to allow clear cuts within plain sight from our so called Circle Route highways. I for one find it an eyesore as do the tourists.

An expensive set of meetings, a costly report to tell people what they already know. Nevermind the BS and get to work!!

Well said pisspulper and on the money.
It IS a mess out there.

The sad thing is the government will allow a forestry company to come in and clear cut a large piece of land, and then not replant trees on it for 20+ years. The land sits denuded of its trees building no future value and the government refuses to sell these piece of land to anyone else that can add value to it.

I know of a piece of land like this that I have wanted to buy to add value to it (farming and eco-tourism), but government rules are no crown land sales of any kind for citizens anymore (unless you have a 100 acre farm within 10 miles), because private land owners don't produce sufficient government revenue with their use of the land goes the argument of government planners.

So the land I wanted that I could create significant value from and even create I think a lot of jobs... sits barren and even though I've wanted it for ten years and have been willing to pay above market rates for it and would be willing to bid against anyone... it still sits there as a scare on the landscape and the government still has not mandated it at least be replanted. Our land planners seem to see hidden value in clear cut blocks that remain that way for heritage purposes or something that I don't understand.

I'm absolutely amazed at how much misinformation can be spread in a forum such as this.

Andyfreeze; the Forest Practices Board is about forest practices not jobs. To that end they have confirmed that even in these remarkably hard times practices are not slipping. You want jobs Andyfreeze then support the good things that the forest industry is doing before it disappears under a sea of red tape and mis-directed environmental activism.

Pisspulper and Eagleone; where on earth do you come up with this nonsense. Areas harvested by the forest industry are ALL being replanted, at least if the land is crown land. Tell us where these areas are that are not replanted? Do some credible research. Hearsay went a long way on the stock market blogs but it has no place here. Show us the goods or quit spreading rhetoric. It's important to understand that it takes a couple of years post harvest to prepare sites for planting and for the planting to take place. The Board checks on this and I assure you if there is land out there that has not been planted for 20+ years, it is land that is the direct responsibility of government to plant not the forest industry.
Oh, and good forest practices do not mean that harvesting should be hidden from the general public or the tourists. The reason any of us can enjoy special places throughout the province is in a large part do to industrial development...building of roads.
I'm sorry that you can't further privatize the province Eagleone (not really). Seems like a very selfish interest.
Our heritage is not what you see today but what will be in the future. Millions of acres have been growing trees planted in the last 20 years whilst providing outdoor recreation opportunities and, yes, tourism.