THE MEASUREMENT OF FOREST PRODUCTS IN CANADA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE HISTORICAL AND LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND
The measurement of forest products in Canada, as the administration of the forests, is the responsibility of the provincial or other local authority. Scaling is commonly used by provincial governments as a basis for assessment of stumpage and/or royalty charges and by logging operators for payment of piece-workers. Legislation and regulations pertaining thereto have evolved independently but with remarkably similar results from Newfoundland to British Columbia.A brief sketch is given of the historical and legislative background and scaling methods in use in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. Included are regulations governing the training and licensing of scalers, approved methods of scaling forest products, whether singly or collectively, and the board-foot or cubic-foot log rules used, both past and present.