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News photo by Barbara Tandory

Mapping It out: lan Hamann, Arrow forest district operations manager, has a draft copy of Westar Timber's new management pian
for tree farm licence No. 23. The plan will guide TFL 23 management for five years once approved by the Ministry of Forests.

Westar presses ahead with
working plan for tree farm

@ Company must proceed with
new management proposals for

the next five years despite

pending sale of timber assets.

said.

The Present management plan, No.7,
doesn’t expire until Dec. 31, 1992, but
Lang said the ministry requirements
ge that a final draft of the new plan

Barbara Tandory
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
With the imminent sale of all Westar

But Westar Timber Ltd. is not out of
the woods yet. Nor is it out of woodland

d by June 1992. The new plan
uitGependiteonion L 1993, and
Dec. 31, 1997.

Lang said Westar has gotten off to an
early start on the initial stages of the plan
and submitted to the Forests Ministry on

WESTAR:
CORPORATE
HISTORY
1958

Westar sawmill
under
construction
1960

Sawmill opens
for production
1961

The pulp mill
opens, the first

pulp mill are both
managed by
Celanese, an
American
company

1962

Canadian
Cellulose owns
and operates the
sawmill-pulp mill

Republic of
China. The pulp

forth during the years of p
“We keep sending it back to them for
revisions and they keep sending it back to
us,” Arnett said. “There’s been good co-
operation between us and good discus-
sions.” Added Hamann: “We're involved in
their operations all the time.”
Both ministry officials noted the work
onanew plan is
adding that delays do occur. The current
five-year plan, notably, was not in place

Aug. 1, the Stat it of M:
Objectives, , Options and Procedures, the
so-called SMOOP document.

First of two parts

on sch and, as a result, will have a
life span of less than three years before its
expiry date.

Although the Forest Act requires com-
panies holding tree farm licences to have
a forest management plan approved by

the ministry every five years, Westar

7

Ian Hamann,

d TFL 23 on of its man-
plan No. 6 well into late 1988

the Ministry of Forests Arrow detrict
office in Castl leg said the draft, now in

plan,
and Working Pian No. 8, is a matter of
policy dictated by the B.C. Ministry of
Forests and will be binding no matter
who is the owner, said Westar Timber
southern region’s chief forester Doug

“Oh yes, absolutely, we're doing it,” said
Laing: whee been wits the sodipenty for 10
years, the last two-and-a-half as the chief

“We have to do it; the land base

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his hands, is “a reference document that
guides their operations for the next five
years.” But, Hamann final
plan is worked out over time between the
company and the Forest Service and
becomes final only on approval by the
B.C. chief forester and the minister of
forests in Victoria.

after the previous plan expired ] Dee. 31,
1984. But Hi said the
had been valid and justified while the
ey was reviewing the next manage-
“It’s quite an elaborate process to go
through,” Lang said.
Before going to work on the new plan,
he said, Westar had undertaken an exten-
sive timber inventory of’ TFL un encom-

The be paint of two-party prep
also stressed pele tinny ome
trict manager Ken Arnett, who noted the
draft copies of the plan travel back and

crea, wif and fish habtata, end

please see WESTAR page C2

mill
Celgar Pulp Ltd.

In May, Westar
Group puts its
timber assets up
for sale

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