The Rural Voice, 2002-10, Page 33says he thanks him and suggests he
go to some other logger.
"It's difficult," he admits, since
many timber buyers claim if you
can't drive up and down the
backroads and bid on bushes the
margins are so thin that you won't
turn a profit.
But "sooner or later you have to
draw the line in the sand," says
Keeso who buys much of his timber
from woodlots that have been
professionally marked as part of a
management plan. "It's more of a
moral issue."
Members of the study team
gee the health of woodlots
as a continuing problem as
long as the minimum diameter
allowed under tree cutting bylaws
becomes, in effect, the maximum
size of tree remaining in the woodlot
following a cut.
The opportunity to change that
trend was lost in Huron County says
Keeso when a new tree bylaw was
passed which maintained a minimum
diameter system for determining
which tree sizes could be cut and
which couldn't. When initial
discussions began on the bylaw three
years ago, county officials were
looking at a minimum basal area
requirement which would have
assured that there was a diversity of
trees left in the woodlot after a cut
because it would have been higher
than could be reached by a diameter -
limit cut.
But the proposal for basal area
limits was an early victim of the
consultation process.
"A lot of us in the industry don't
understand it (the concept)," says
Keeso.
Steele admits that calculating the
basal area seems complicated but he
found out while doing the study that
it wasn't very difficult at all.
Bowles agrees that the basal area
system is really quite 'easy. It's just
measuring the number of large trees
left in the area when logging is
completed, she says.
But diameter cutting seems easier
to enforce, she says. The tree
inspector can just. measure the
stumps remaining and make sure
none are smaller than the bylaw
allows. Landowners to are attracted
to the simpler system because it takes
more skill to mark a forest for good
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