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To: teevee who wrote (4815)	7/4/2003 3:46:56 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

You'll likely find if you look into it that the germans involved have only held that land since the late forties, early fifties ... not sure, but this is true in another, and related, case ... where an existing BC timber company was bought out using fair-sized suitcases [literally] of shiney new usd notes Trivia points - a famous fashion designer/socialite is a significant if not controlling shareholder in that company .... Corky Evans did some logging there ... i did logging related stuff there, and Corky's name came up, i happened to meet him over this, it was enough to interest me in following his later career in guvmint .... in that same period i was invited to lunch by the Freiherr looking after forestry for another german family, whose principal members would also be at lunch, shortly after i happened to catch their first lady on the new David Letterman show .... what i learned from all this is that there are germans and then there are germans, they aren't in fact stamped out by cookie cutter ..... too bad, because if more were like der Freiherr forestry would be better off Since then the family of which you speak has sold a block on Vancouver Island, and it's been nuked .... patches where the local RPF wouldn't have put on a timber value for another twenty years are gone, poof .... the land is about to be changed from 'managed forest' status to 'pave and put plastic condos here' .... so Corky's principal point in re 'private' forestry in this province is borne out - the tax advantage given to 'managed forest' is meaningless, as long as the status can be changed without any meaningful contribution ... advantage goes to the developer in the end, some with the speculators along the way of course Europeans have ideas about timberland ownership quite incompatible with ours, a notable one is the thing about blocking access to the public at large .... which turns the place into a private hunting club And they do so clear-cut ... you have to clear-cut if you want douglas fir as the next crop, it wants sun, it's called a 'shade-intolerant species' by foresters .... if not for forest fires and landslides etc, there would be no douglas fir here, nothing but a climax forest of hemlock and cedar .... i have clear-cut for those very same germans, and for their friends ..... but the thing is, never in large areas, nothing but patches intelligently designed following rules of my hero der Freiherr, and no patch got to the size where non-forestry types would label it 'clear-cut' .... but fact remains, that even in single-tree selection, of which i also did a fair bit for them where it was appropriate, every single stump i made was pretty bloody clearly cut