MOF Preparing for the LRMP --

Now don’t be cynical

A look at game’s strategy: >operability, < VQO (visual quality objectives); >’tenures’

Then ask the public what it wants: LRMP

Operability This is from a brochure showing the operable timber in North Coast The red areas are non-conventional i.e. helicopter logging. The licensees got this concession when log prices were sky rocketing. Increase the operability lines to 100$/m^3 average costs “from stump to pond” Plus ‘helicopter logging looks like a scam for getting 25 cent stumpage (I estimate that 2/3rds of Interfor’s North Coast stumpage in 2000 was at minimal 25 cents a cubic meter based upon MOF data given me) Look in the current conditions booklet and the same map is present but it is all one colour – black. Probably a simple mistake and not meant to mislead. Anyways a new “operability” determination will be finished soon (Feb 20002?) and no costs will be attached. (Goes up but not down)

Protecting tourism values?? Or AAC?

Inside passage Corridor Around 1986 a moratorium was put on logging the scenic Inside Passage ‘until the public could decide’. When an LRMP looked imminent the NDP government and MOF began logging in earnest “Trust us”

A look at Chart areas ca 1998 and “tenures” in 2001

In preparation for LRMP?

Whatever there has been a significant increase in land areas “promised”

Especially Inside Passage and Skeena Estuary.

Chart Areas ca 1998 vs “tenures” right

Un-logged watersheds in early 1990s

A Hit list for MOF These watersheds look like a resume of logging over the past 8 years. Each year a few were slated for logging until now most are gone.