The Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks’ submission maintains that requirements in the Forest Practices Code to protect other values will require four or five harvesting entries. This will significantly reduce timber supply, particularly with the change in the green-up height requirement from 2.5 metres, as used in the Forest Service analysis, to three metres as required by the Forest Practices Code.
The forest industry contends that under a four-pass system, harvesting is unlikely to be distributed at 25 per cent per entry, as indicated in the Forest Service analysis. Rather, the proportions will likely be 35 per cent in the first entry, 25 per cent in the second and 20 per cent in each of the last two entries.
Two submissions express concern about the timber supply reductions that would result from an increase in the number of harvesting entries to five.
