Local and Indigenous governments as well as local forestry stakeholders will benefit from increased participation opportunities in the forest sector. The new sharing agreement is called apportionment, for the Quesnel Timber Supply Area.
The apportionment was announced by Ravi Kahlon at the Quesnel Forestry Innovation Centre.
Apportionment is how the government would like to see allowable annual cuts of a management unit distributed. Apportionment categorizes by licence type, the breakdown of available volume within the allowable annual cut of a timber supply area that has been determined by the chief forester or deputy chief forester.
In 2017, Diane Nicholls, chief forester, announced that the allowable annual cut for the Quesnel Timber Supply Area was 2.6 million cubic metres, with harvest maximums of 127,000 cubic metres from deciduous tree-leading stands, 1.25 million cubic metres from living trees and the remainder to be harvested from dead trees.
This new sharing agreement supports the three key government objectives, supporting Indigenous reconciliation, supporting community involvement in local resource management as well as forest sector diversification to enhance economic stability in the area.
