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So someone is complaining there is little Old Growth left in the PG TSA. The TSA consists of a majority of Boreal and Sub-Boreal Forest, which, from past studies naturally burns every 60 -70 years, on average. Some older islands are left, some don't make to that age. A major component is Pine, which is old aged at 140 years, which is why the 140 year figure was arrived at in the first place. We artificially protect the forest from fire and it gets older, so is subject to other forces of nature, like wind, rot. disease and pests. So, in this case the Beetle has eaten up all the old growth. That's what happens when you manage forest systems at a level that is beyond natural influences. We established Old Growth Management Areas (OGMA) to satisfy social pressures from Environmentalists. The result has been Dead Old Growth Management Areas (DOGMA). Haven't we learned anything from this misguided forest management experience?

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Somehow the magic of "value added" hasn't been accomplished through the added "value" sufficiently to translate into the purchasing price of logs sold on the market available to value adders now but when the government gives them someone else's money or targets crown tenure volume their way, the magic will follow? And the Yanks won't notice either?

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Hold On. The forestry companies are meeting all their biodiversity obligations! So the authors of this report decide to recommend even more environmental red tape to squeeze the logging industry even further out of business. The environmentalists will never be happy until they kill all logging everywhere! And this all started with 1 'complaint'!? We should not allow our industry to be held hostage to complainers.

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It is encouraging to learn that Bruce Chapman & his team at Northern Pulp have not given up on finding a solution for acceptable affluent treatment. With Stephen Mac Neil leaving the political scene in the near future I think that they have reason to be optimistic.

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If the softwood lumber dispute is settled and the money returned to Canada will the Federal government ensure that a portion of the tariff is returned to private log suppliers as the price of logs just got reduced to reflect the cost of the tariff when it was imposed. We should be compensated for that reduction in what we get from the mills.

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Mr Fidelli, The job gains are a positive sign of growth in Ontario but what about your own riding? All we ever see in the news in your riding are drug overdoses, factories shutting down (recently Metso and a month ago Epiroc) and the never ending homeless issue. What are you doing to change these very negative aspects of living in the District of Nipissing? Luc Champagne

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I hope that some of this rebuttal is widely communicated. I see the misinformation on Facebook frequently!

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Given the magnitude and ease of rent seeking bounty exclusively available to all disciplines parroting the global warming / extreme events theses conveniently buried beneath the factually undeniable term, "climate change", it's not surprising to see yet another from forestry academia. It's disappointing however when ones delves into independent alternative work disproving or least dampening the popular expectations touted such as recent non warming from unadjusted global temperatures and statistics invalidating extreme weather events as being on the increase. It's almost as if there is a symbiosis between the hysteria business and the political class feeding off one another.

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So it took the death of Dudley George and 25 years....yes 25 years to give a hundred acre parcel of land back to the Chippewas. Good grief !

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How many times is Canada's Softwood industry going to go through with this charade?

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"Digitization to move data not people"? Does this mean more effort into automation or remote control of equipment?

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Those opposed to log exports prefer the US duties imposed on lumber blatantly subsidized by the insistence that Canadian logs, whether owned by the Crown or privately, be sold to the lowest bidder. At the margin, this puts those sawmills down but satisfies the politics of envy and resentment.

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The NRDC doesn't care about the relative merits of Canadian forest practices. It is in business to raise money by creating demand for action against industries hysterically depicted by their various campaigns. Canada is their prime target because through Canadian Crown land and resource ownership, their costs of success is that of political lobby rather than the much larger market price of private land (such as most of US and European forests) reflecting economic rents. NRDC and its peers will only move on to their next campaign when their targets are eliminated and for Canada, that means preserved in its entirety.

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This is an interesting and welcome technology to utilize our renewable resource. Wood is good.

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I find it difficult to take a report like this seriously. If what this report says is true then you have to agree that logging an area will have a similar impact. Does anyone stop and wonder if putting aside so many areas into reserves has contributed to the build up of fuel. How about the fact that the opposition to logging has pushed harvesting away from communities and thus allowed fuel loads around communities to build up. Why are we are surprised and shocked when a fire rips through a residential area. Putting back fire on the landscape is not going to solve the problem. Managing our forests for well spaced healthy resilient forests will. We need to control insect, wind damage, and disease impacts to significantly reduce fuel loads. This will go a long way to making us safer. Putting large areas off limits to logging is proving not to be so beneficial to the public lands. Come on folks , wake up before it is too late. George Delisle

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Very confident that UBC cluster of talents will achieve their goal with excellence. Good luck and keep up the great work.

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It is one thing to plant trees, but another to manage them. I know of so many plantations that were planted with good intentions and then forgotten. People need to be encouraged to thin, prune, and focus on crop trees and get rid of the trees with no future. Not many out there willing to do the hard work involved. However for the ones that do, very rewarding. Cheers

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No fire concern - there's still snow on the ground. This is to prevent get-togethers around a camp fire.

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How can anyone involved with the forest Industry be happy with the latest NAFTA update. The forest sector was not even on the radar when this was discussed. We were part of the forgotten tribe called Western Canada. We have got screwed for the last 30 years more or less with so called free trade with the States. The independent log suppliers were even worse off as they never received a dime of the tariffs that were returned to Canada. The major manufacturing plants received huge sums of money when most of the tariff was returned. What did they do with it? They went down south of the border and bought up mills down there that are now competing with our mills in Canada. I guess we got the government we deserve when we think they did us a big favor by screwing us again. George Delisle