Is Dr. Thomas Hutton, Professor, Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia the same UBC professor that said last year it would be more cost effective if some of the northern communities were shut down because they were not sustainable long term?

If so then it could explain part of the problems with this program.

Judging from this blurb, is there job on the board to advise mountain pine beetles?

If so, I am glad to see that they have increased there numbers, cause there are a lot of pine beetles.

If there task is to look and advise the public on what to do since the little guys have already left the building, there are too many on the board.

It will take them forever, or just after the first global forest fire(which ever comes first) to make any decisions.

The formation of this board is: too little too late. It should have been formed years ago when the outbreak started.

And now because of the new people another study will have to happen, or will it only be a study to see if they need a study

Scam!
This board is a complete waste of tax dollars!
It will contribute nothing that isn't already known.It is too little,too late as well.

Nothing can happen these days without some sort of oversight group. I am not sure why those we elect, and those who are in ministries who are giving direction by those we elect cannot hire people qualified to make professional decisions.

Time someone formed a MPB watchdog group as well to keep the whole lot honest, out in the open and, most of all, effective.

http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/faculty%20profiles/hutton.htm

In a nutshell, that is why Hutton would not be interested in the MPB and small forest communities. He is not interested in small scale cities.

Cities go through at least 4 phases in their growth cycle. Some, like Barkerville, never make it into the second stage. Others, like Vancouver, have reached the fourth stage. At that level, they are essentially self perpetuating. If they cannot feed off one group of external and internal economic clusters, they will simply change their sources and their customers. Very few cities have failed at that level other than in the past when entire societies have failed.

Small communities are expendable in the big picture. It is that way with all living things. It is something called the greater good. The question becomes at which time does a community or a series of communities not become expendable. It is a tough world, but that is the “biological” imperative. It is the way the world is set up both naturally and socially.

I doubt that Hutton is interested in that type of philosophical discussion even.

Where is PG at in the order of city development? I would say stage 3, in some ways still bordering on stage 2, in other ways bordering on stage 4. It is up to us to decide which way we wish this community to move. We must realize that there are the Huttons of the world out there. The sooner we realize that, the better we can manage how we deal with those who are of his opinion.