I think he's right. I can't argue with that.

Me too, great idea.

'Finance' will prevent what should be done, from ever happening. Whether it's an idea like the one above, (which seems to be a good one), or any other that's equally sensible from the standpoint of physical reality.

The sound idea that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" doesn't ever seem to register with those in command of the country's (or Province's) credit. They'll wait for disaster to happen first.

And it especially doesn't register when it might work to ensure some future scarcity, (of lumber, bio-energy, or other like products, in this case), resulting in higher prices to consumers, might be avoided.

When we have governments that will spend $ 50 million of your and my tax dollars to pay pork producers to slaughter 10% of their breeding stock, and essentially "plow it under", to keep it off the market in the express purpose of raising the price of pork to consumers, (most of whom are finding it increasingly difficult already to make ends meet on their incomes without paying more for pork as well!, why should we ever imagine a sensible idea that might re-employ wood workers and benefit the public in general as consumers would ever be adopted?

The whole idea of 'finance' as it's presently operated is that overall WE will pay ever MORE for what we need and want, never LESS. So just as $ 50 million will go as a subsidy to make pork scarce, (and 'save' the pork industry by inducing higher prices ~ when it could just as easily be paid to the pork producers to cover their costs and make pork cheaper to consumers so more might be able to afford it), "OUR" governments will NEVER allow anything like the idea Bett's WSCA proposed to come to fruition.

I don't see where there is near the fire hazard these people are talking about. Ground fires like this just don't propogate like they think. We used to look for areas like this when fighting fire to make a fire line because the fire totally drops in these patches.

And what's the reference to California fires?? BC is nothing like that.

As for logging rotten, punky, splintered wood with convention equipment ... Nope. You wind up with a bunch of scrap.

I agree socredible!
But we would first have to have a provincial government that actually gave a damn about finding solutions...and we don't!
I appears there is more happening here on a much bigger scale than meets the eye.
We elect governments to look after our assets and our financial interests, but what we seem to have these days are governments that look after their own self-interests at the expense of the people who elected them!
The electorate in this country is losing ground at an alarming rate, and people best start waking up to that!
The whole system is out of balance ad the government control is increasing everyday.
These are not demcratic governments,they are dictorships by elelction!!
This idea makes perfect sense, but if the provincial government was actually interested in keeping forestry workers employed,it should and would have already happened.
It may not be the perfect solution,but at least it is SOMETHING that is workable!
What?..with all the high priced forestry wizards in government,they couldn't have figured this out for themselves?
They have done nothing, and have very little to even say about the destruction of the industry here in B.C.
And by the way...do we still have a Premier in this province?
Because if we do,he is very quiet for some reason?
Did big business tell the puppets to shut up?

I thought forest fires were healthy for forests...encourages new growth by supplying nutrients to the soil via the fire.... unfortunately mother nature's timetable is much longer than human's.

If there is at least some hope that someone will make a buck out of this mess, I sure hope the government keeps it's nose out of this. If it works, then tax them. Under the circumstances, we don't need a government that may be negative about this.

Scrap?...........I call that fuel,.......for energy!

Fuel for energy?

Crunch the cost of getting them from point a to point b....you would be better off buying green power I wager based on the price of oil/gas to harvest this timber.