The following input was received regarding the allowable annual cut:
• the forest industry submissions maintain that both their independent analysis and the Forest Service analysis support the maintenance of the present allowable annual cut for the next five years
• the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks is concerned the analyses tend to overestimate the available timber supply significantly and do not include a contingency for catastrophic events; they suggest a conservative allowable annual cut, but do not specify a level
• in order to balance the effects of past overcutting and to avoid habitat fragmentation and destruction in the two-thirds of the Quesnel River watershed that does not have protected status, the alliance recommends the allowable annual cut should be reduced immediately to well below the long-term timber supply level, but they do not specify a target
