Why do the pulp and paper companies want more control?
6) What are Special Management Zones? To address the wide array of ecological and social values for which Crown lands are supposed to be managed, special management zones can be created. Currently we have riparian management zones where clearcutting is not permitted within 30 metres of streams, lakes or rivers. One third of these riparian forests can be cut every ten years using partial cutting systems. We also have two special habitat management zones: deer wintering yards and old spruce-fir habitat areas (to provide habitat to pine marten and other species associated with this type of forest). Logging is also permitted in these zones, and in fact, they can ultimately be clearcut, as long as the total area requirements for this kind of habitat is met on each licence. Our forest ecosystems have been simplified by clearcutting, plantations, herbicide spraying and thinning, habitat for a number of forest-dependent species is disappearing and when wildlife biologists realized that within
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