PANNING PLANNING

 I was just reading  Managing Canada's Renewable Resources by Ralph C. Krueger and Bruce Mitchell, Methuen 1977.

On page 21, they talk about the efficient use of our resources requiring a "steady response" to what is going on as far as changes occurring in economic and social conditions that continuously alter usage.They say our policies of 'assigning land and resources to particular uses obstruct this required flexibility.'

On page 23 they come right out and say, " The goal of maximum sustained yield contains no economic logic...more value could be gained by exploiting more when values are high and less when values are low."

If Ontario had had a flexibility in their SFL's would this have allowed the likes of the sawmills at Dubreuilville and Atikokan to wait out the low market and not have the government take the wood allocations away "because they were not using it"?

The ENGOs are really pushing the "Land Use Planning" button. If they can get a Caribou Protection Zone all the way across below the Far North line, they can block all resource access routes south from the Ring Of Fire area. So far the Ontario Government is not buying in to that, and has areas spaced out.

My preference is to keep all the forest working with the Caribou Mosaic style cuts.