• Coniferous harvest
Two major coniferous licensees operate processing facilities within the Dawson Creek Timber Supply Area. The timber supply area has several smaller processing operations as well.
Harvesting and processing the current apportioned allowable annual cut — 691,323 cubic metres — from the Dawson Creek Timber Supply Area generates an estimated 470 person-years of direct employment and 710 total person-years of employment within the area (SEA page 38).
The coniferous licensee’s wood supplies are not solely obtained from Crown land within the timber supply area. Other sources of wood are Tree Farm Licence 48 within the Dawson Creek Forest District and private land within B.C. and Alberta. Based on 1993 figures, approximately 41 per cent of the wood supplied to these mills was obtained from the timber supply area. (SEA page 29)
• Deciduous harvest
The deciduous timber supply for the processing facilities in the Dawson Creek Timber Supply Area is largely obtained from sources other than Crown land, particularly from private land in B.C. and Alberta.
The deciduous timber volume harvested from the timber supply area is highly variable, depending primarily on the availability of private timber. Therefore, estimating the employment generated from the deciduous harvest was based on how much deciduous timber is required from all sources to support the two deciduous processing facilities which rely on deciduous timber. For the purposes of this review, a harvest level of 955,000 cubic metres, three per cent below the allocated harvesting level, was used. (SEA page 48)
Harvesting and processing 955,000 cubic metres of aspen and cottonwood from all sources generates an estimated 745 person-years of direct employment and 1,098 total person-years of indirect employment in the Dawson Creek Timber Supply Area. (SEA page 49)
