Now he says 257 million board feet of lumber. Does he mean actual lumber or lumber stored in logs.

"Several agreements will be signed in addition to tours of new wood
manufacturing facilities" Do we have any wood manufacturing facilities or does he have to go to China to see one.

This is lumber.. Log export volumes are reported in cubic meters by legislation.

Seamutt has a one track mind. No matter how often the lumber versus logs categories are explained, he keeps on posting the same thing over and over.

This might be a bit of a revelation to some, but the forests are the wood manufacturing facilities. The wood that is manufactured by nature in the forests is harvested and transported to lumber, pulp and other similar manufacturing facilities. :-)

Lumber and other manufacturing facilities vary greatly throughout the world.

Maybe they meant to write "wood products manufacturing facilties". They would want to see how windows, doors, shipping crates, etc. are manufactured so that they can see the type of specific lumber prodcut they may need as their feedstock.

Just trying to make sense of the thing. :-)

Before anyone get a bee in their bonnet about log exports..Read this.

There arent any significant exports in the interior anyhow aside from a few log home builders in the states that buy the odd rail car of high grade logs. And they pay top dollar for this wood anyhow. These logs are usually hand picked by the client.

Its not economical to export logs out of the interior to china for a couple reasons. The major timber tenure holders need the timber for their mills. The coast is too far away to truck low value timber and rail is too expensive as well there is a shortage of rail log bulkhead rail cars to ship logs over long distances. The Chinese dont buy high value timber like spruce or douglas fir, they are looking for the low grade stuff that is cheap. Having said that.. the coast is where the bulk of international log exports are taking place. Most of this wood is low grade that cant be economicaly run in our mills anyhow. And most if it is private land and first nations tenures anyhow.

Also if the lumber price has a significant increase lumber sales to china will drop because they are taking advantage of cheap lumber on the current market.

Before anyone get a bee in their bonnet about log exports..Read this.

There arent any significant exports in the interior anyhow aside from a few log home builders in the states that buy the odd rail car of high grade logs. And they pay top dollar for this wood anyhow. These logs are usually hand picked by the client.

Its not economical to export logs out of the interior to china for a couple reasons. The major timber tenure holders need the timber for their mills. The coast is too far away to truck low value timber and rail is too expensive as well there is a shortage of rail log bulkhead rail cars to ship logs over long distances. The Chinese dont buy high value timber like spruce or douglas fir, they are looking for the low grade stuff that is cheap. Having said that.. the coast is where the bulk of international log exports are taking place. Most of this wood is low grade that cant be economicaly run in our mills anyhow. And most if it is private land and first nations tenures anyhow.

Also if the lumber price has a significant increase lumber sales to china will drop because they are taking advantage of cheap lumber on the current market.

I stand corrected, my table was manufactured in the forest. Maybe in the great bear rainforest as there is a little bear poop stain on it.

To validate seamutt's post.
I could see where people might get concerned with a news release like this..Log exports and apurtancy are an important issue to sawmill communites which should be examined further and the right information put out there when news like this comes about.
One thing for coastal sawmill communites would have to watch out for is the govt converting/selling crown forests or tree farm licences into private lands.. There are little to no export restrictions on private land timber. This is what we collectivly as a province need to be wathing over..Making sure our crown timber on crown land isnt privatized. This is by far a more important issue than log exports.