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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (84)	8/26/2001 2:51:32 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Yes, the raw log export policies are quite comparable for government-held land .... major difference with BC is that a far higher percentage of the land is crown provincial, for reasons of philosophical differences way back while the place was being settled .... well now that's just the way it is, and we deeply resent being pushed around by foreigners with a blindered and self-serving view of the situation ..... there are many in this province who would like to change the land tenure system, i am among them, but it is a highly charged political issue and as long as this US timber baron attack goes on we are forced to side with the staunch socialistas who want to retain, nay expand, the huge provincial forest service machine I have exported logs, it was fairly straight-forward for much of the 80s as long as you had timber on land that was crown granted previous to 1896, or 1903, or something, i forget .... we call these the 'crescent marks', as under the old system of stamps there was a crescent under the letters and numbers on the stamp hammer .... one time i had a contract job, the wood went to the chinese at a fantastic price, near three times what the local market was willing to pay ... maybe more than three times, since the scale was US-style Doyle and not Scribner [this was before Pierre of the Finger imposed the admittedly more sensible metric scale on us] It tends to be the highest and lowest value wood that gets exported - the highest value like clear old-growth fir because transport cost becomes insignificant in relation to price, and the lowest value because it gets chipped for pulp and paper and then shipped cheap in bulk I didn't mean to abandon this thread, just haven't had much time ... you have a genuine interest, that's a good thing, this is a very serious question and should be on front pages in the US like it is here, it is imho a sign of imminent major problems in world markets in general, when this style of protectionist attack starts up ..... an alaskan, eh? - maybe later we'll get into the question of reparations for all our salmon you people have been ripping off as they come through your saltchuck en route from the Bering Sea -g- .... cheers