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 Once an area is
harvested and the timber has been scaled, a waste and residue survey is
carried out to account for any volume left in the harvest area. The volume information from the waste and residue survey
is used to determine if additional billing is necessary, should the
amount of waste left on the block be deemed excessive.
Licensees are required
to submit a plan detailing how their harvest areas will be assessed for
waste. This may be done annually (for the entire year's waste
assessments), or by the block (for each individual cutblock's waste
assessment).
When sampling specific
areas, a sampling plan is created and pieces of wood that are within utilization limits
that
should have been removed from the site are tallied.
“Waste” means timber,
except timber reserved from cutting, whether standing or felled, which
meets or exceeds the timber merchantability specifications described for
the Coast and the Interior not removed from the cutting authority area. Waste is
classed as avoidable or unavoidable. Pieces that are
unavoidable have been left on site due to safety concerns,
environmental constraints, or physical impediments. Anything else
is avoidable, and as such, is billable.
Licensees are allowed a
benchmark limit for allowable amounts of waste. On the Coast,
these limits are:
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For immature
timber, 10 m3/ha
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For mature timber,
35 m3/ha.
Waste and residue
surveys are subject to auditing by Ministry of Forests and Range staff
to ensure compliance with Ministry regulations and policy.
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