Port McNeill District Staff actively solicited public input on the Timber Supply Review in the Kingcome Timber Supply Area through the following actions:
• copies of the three documents and a letter with the dates and locations of open houses were mailed to over 200 stakeholders, including First Nations, town councils, regional districts, labour groups, Small Business Forest Enterprise Program registrants, logging contractors, major licensees, and chambers of commerce. The Discussion Paper included a response form that readers were encouraged to complete and return to the district manager
• eleven information sessions were held with representatives from the forest industry, labour, local governments and other interest groups (see Table 1). Some of these were held at the request of the group
• six open houses were held following extensive advertisements in four local newspapers
• the Timber Supply Review for the Kingcome Timber Supply Area was featured on Canada AM, CBC Radio news and B.C. Report
• the North Island Gazette provided extensive coverage, and articles also appeared in several provincial newspapers
As Table 1 shows, many individuals attended the information sessions and the open houses. The Port McNeill Forest District also received five completed response forms and eighteen written submissions, some which were supported by additional technical data (see Appendix 1). The Kingcome Licensees also commissioned Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants to undertake an independent timber supply analysis. That document—the Kingcome TSA Timber Supply Review Audit—is referred to as the "licensee analysis" in this report. The Coast Forest and Lumber Association (CFLA) commissioned EB Experts Inc. & Clayton Resources Ltd. to review both the Timber Supply Analysis and the Socio-Economic Analysis. The resulting document—Kingcome Timber Supply Area Timber Supply Review Choices for AAC: 1995-2000—is referred to as the "CFLA report" in this document.
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Activities (No. of participants) |
Date |
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Meetings with interest groups | |
|
Port McNeill (22) |
August 16, 1995 |
|
Campbell River (4) |
August 17, 1995 |
|
Regional Economic Development Commission (11) |
September 11, 1995 |
|
District of Campbell River (2) |
September 14, 1995 |
|
Major Licensees (7) |
September 21, 1995 |
|
Interfor - Cleagh Creek Camp (65) |
October 10, 1995 |
|
Mount Waddington Community Resources Board (20) |
October 16, 1995 |
|
District of Port Hardy (13) |
October 18, 1995 |
|
Truck Loggers Association Board of Directors (12) |
October 20, 1995 |
|
Presentations on Visual Quality Objectives | |
|
Mount Waddington Community Resources Board (14) |
November 16, 1995 |
|
Town of Port McNeill (10) |
November 21, 1995 |
|
Open Houses | |
|
Campbell River (11) |
September 14, 1995 |
|
Port Hardy (10) |
September 20, 1995 |
|
Port McNeill (14) |
September 21, 1995 |
|
Sointula (5) |
September 27, 1995 |
|
Alert Bay (4) |
September 28, 1995 |
|
Port Alice (7) |
October 3, 1995 |
Table 1: Participation in public information sessions
