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Westar

continued from page

As part of the i seventeny prepa-
ration, Westar held open houses in
the summer of 1990 in Castlegar,
Nakusp and Revelstoke to solicit
public input on wilderness and
recreation areas.

The inventory is “beirig complet-
ed,” said Lang. The inventory was
an obligation imposed on Westar by
the provincial Ministry of Forests.

“They had an obligation to com-

(AAC) out of the total 900,000 cubic
metres a year.

“There’s only one other, smaller,
tree farm in the district, the Slocan
Forest Products’ TFL No. 3, with
an AAC of 108,000 cubic metres a
year. The total forest district AAC
is 1.3 million cubic metres a year.

Because Crown land is involved,

the pending sale might split TFL

23 in smaller pieces, which would

mean less wood supply for the

Castlegar sawmill and a possible
It.

on,” says Dan Madlung, the gener-
al

case in forestry sales, with changes

in only one or two top positions,
such as his, when a new manage-
ment team takes over.

As for the fate of the tree farm
licence, its size will shrink by at.
least five per cent after the sale.

lained that the first

of Westar’s Southern
Woodlands divisi

the Process of management plan-
ning is subject to public involve-
me 63 —and criticism.

plete it during the
plan No. 7,” noted Hamann.

He also explained that as a hold-
er of a “fixed tenure” — as opposed
to volume-based tenure, such as
that held by Kalesnikoff Lumber
Co. — Westar has greater obliga-
tions in regard to the tree farm
licence.

“Their obligations are more like
those of owners because they oper-
ate on a fixed piece of land,”
Hamann said. “It’s a form of stew-
ardship.”

Along with the increased respon-
sibilities, Westar enjoys the addi-
tional right of harvesting the tree
farm licence land.

“But they have to address all
those issues,” he said. “And our job
is to ensure that their statements of
intent are followed through.”

The Forest Service’s Arrow dis-
trict office in Castlegar administers
the southern block of TFL 23,
stretching from Castlegar to Revel-
stoke, or 600,000 cubic metres a
year in the annual allowable cut

pr of Westar’s
fio ahs plan No. 7 in the mid-
1980s was under a cloud of public
concern over the three subsequent
extensions of the old plan granted
the company by the ministry.

At this time, the planning pro-
cess has become overshadowed by
serious community concern that

“It’s absolutely necessary that
good forest management be prac-
tised day after day,” said Madlung,
noting that the ministry and the
general public are the necessary
safeguards to ensure continued
good forest management after the

of ownership.

Mad) wouldn't u

thing that happens after a sale is
that the government institutes a
five per cent reduction in the AAC.

After that, any split up by sale
would result in further five per cent
reductions in volume, the total
dependent on how many pieces the
TFL is carved into, TFL 23’s size
has shrunk already by about 15 per
cent, said Madh

whether Westar Timber would run
under the same administrative
staff but said this is usually the

WHAT IS A TREE FARM LICENCE?

A tree farm licence is a geographic area of Crown land for which
one company has exclusive rights to timber harvesting.

For this, the company pays both an annual rent and a fee for every
cubic metre the ests. The also has
al to the ofthe area.

The company must allow for all other users of the geographic area,
including fish and wildlife mining, enjoy-
ment and other recreational interests.

Tree farm licence 23 encompasses a total area of 762,000 hectares
or which 35 per cent — 264,000 hectares — is suitable for timber har-
vest.

The TFL Is broken into two geographic areas:

+ North Block — basically north of Galena Bay (about 50 kilometres
south of Revelstoke) but excluding the Beaton area.

+ South Block — basically areas south of Galena ‘Bay to

The last time was in 1986 when
the government took five per cent
and gave it to small sawmills after
Westar consistently cut less than
its allowable quota.

“If it’s sold and split, then we
have to reduce the (management
plan) process,” said Lang.

He said his job prevents him
from taking a public position on the
splitting up of TFL by sale but gave
his opinion as a forester as to the
ramifications.

“If you split up a land base, if
you only divide it in half, you get
less when you add up the (two) split
halves,” he explained, citing the
mandatory cuts by the > government.

“It means less jobs,” he

Next week: Public involve-

ment critical to avoid later con-

A final draft of the
new plan is due
June 30, 1992.

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