A Healthy Forest Benefits All
By 250 News
Friday, September 02, 2005 04:01 AM
Chair of Citizen’s Coalition on Mountain Pine Beetle, Debora Munoz, encourages the public to support the city’s application for a Community Forest License and to actively participate in the public consultation sessions planned for September 13 and 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. at city hall.
"For too long we have seen forest resources extracted from the north with huge profits going south and little or no benefits returned." says Munoz, "Under the proposed community forest agreement (a five-year term, with a volume of 12,000 cubic meters per year) there is the potential to participate in revenue sharing and keep forestry and related manufacturing jobs in Prince George"
A community forest license will allow local government to manage crown forests for the benefit of the whole community. Public support and input is essential in determining how this is done.
Munoz sees forest health and forest renewal as a top concern for Prince George. "We need to move forward and beyond our current beetle crisis, to strengthen and diversify our local forest economies and plan for innovative, sustainable forest management today and in years to come."
She agrees that one of the main forest health issues facing Prince George is the possibility of a large-scale interface fire occurring as a result of tens of thousands of standing beetle-killed trees and asks “ How will Citizens with beetle-attacked trees in their backyards be protected from this danger?”
The majority of pine trees in Prince George have now been infested and there are many individuals on a fixed income, seniors, single parent families, etc., who have no choice but to leave their beetle-killed trees standing as they simply cannot afford the costs to have them removed.
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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on September 5 2005 7:10 AM
People are going to have a lot more to worry about than the removal of some beetle killed trees!!!
How affordable will driving become???
How to get the money to afford to drive to work to make the money to survive.
Will all this affect the price of groceries so anything other than absolute necessities will mean nothing left even for a small luxury???
How about staying warm this winter??? Any hope of that for many???
By the end of August we felt the chill in our homes, and required the furnace to kick on mornings. Nothing but watching our money get eaten up by increased prices and useage for the next 6 months.
Yep-all we need is some more scare tactics by this threat of fire!!!
Will it really be fire that is required to cleanse this earth?
Now where in heavens name did I hear that one????
Don't worry---be happy!!!!!
A friend told me-"Cheer up-things could be worse." So I thought, "Right on!", so I cheered up, and sure enough, "Things got worse."