A forest industry submission expresses concern at the suggestion in the Discussion Paper that higher harvest levels could be maintained in the Vanderhoof and Fort St. James timber supply areas. The respondent asserts this volume is largely in wood under 17.5 centimetres diameter at breast height and is needed to support mills already harvesting in this profile. The author proposes a partitioned cut based on a piece size of approximately 0.20 cubic metres to ensure harvesting occurs across the piece size profile and give the best return to the Crown.
One respondent recommends the Forest Service take a more proactive role in forest land management, specifically through the inclusion of good and medium cedar/hemlock and deciduous forest cover types in the allowable annual cut as a partitioned cut—similar to the situation in the Fort Nelson Timber Supply Area. Two other submissions also support a partitioned cut for cedar and hemlock types.
