Land claims process and its potential impact on wood supply

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Lee ◽  
Phil Symington
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Potential Impact

The settlement of Land Claims in British Columbia could entail the negotiation of forestry interests in many areas of the province. This paper looks at Land Claims settlements in other jurisdictions and at the Nisga'a Agreement in Principle in B.C. to see how these examples have or will affect wood supply in their locations. Other factors, such as timber supply in general, are also considered.

Are forest sector firms maximizing the economic returns from their timber? Evidence from British Columbia

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Nelson ◽  
David Cohen ◽  
William Nikolakis
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Organizational Behaviour ◽  
Industry Value Chain

Understanding the components of the forest value chain and linkages is essential in designing a system that will maximize the economic value of Canadian fibre. A key part of the system is how firms incorporate the fibre quality and attributes of their timber supply into the decision over what kinds of products to manufacture. The linkage between timber supply and how firms decide to utilize fibre is critically important, especially in Canada, where government policy plays a key role in governing access to fibre. We explore this question by looking at whether firms try to maximize the economic return from their fibre, or instead focus on other objectives such as maximizing the production volume they can generate from their timber supply. We surveyed sawmills and woodland managers in British Columbia in the Fall of 2006 and focused on a particular characteristic—the extent to which sawmills and operations are responding to value-based signals rather than to other kinds of signals. We found that the majority of BC forest sector firms we interviewed are emphasizing volume-based measures on a daily basis, whether they are in sawmill or woodlands operations, and while economic measures become more important as the period lengthens, it is unclear as to how firms reconcile these 2 different types of measures. Key words: organizational behaviour, firm operations, Canadian forest industry, value chain optimization

scholarly journals Juvenile Height Development in Interior Spruce Stands of British Columbia

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon D. Nigh ◽  
Bobby A. Love
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Site Index ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Breast Height ◽  
Forest Region ◽  
Interior Spruce ◽  
Spruce Stands ◽  
Age Model ◽  
Height Model

Abstract Good estimates of juvenile heights are important for silviculture and timber supply decision-making. These height estimates are particularly important for estimating the number of years it takes a stand to reach green-up and breast height. Thirty-nine 0.04 ha plots were established in managed juvenile stands of interior spruce in the Prince Rupert Forest Region. Four sample trees in each plot were split longitudinally and height-age data were obtained from the exposed pith nodes or branch whorls. The height-age data were fit to a combined exponential and power function to create a juvenile height model for interior spruce. This model is a function of age and site index. Years to breast height and green-up age models were developed with data generated from the juvenile height model. Forecasts from these models indicate that the time to reach breast height and green-up age is less than previously expected. The juvenile height model, years to breast height model, and green-up age model should be used for site indices above 14.2 m. In addition, the height model should only be used up to total age 20. West. J. Appl. For. 15(3):117-121.

Canadian Supreme Court: Delgamuukw V. British Columbia

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-333
Author(s):  
Catherine Bell
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Aboriginal Rights ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
Aboriginal Title ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
British Colonies

Delgamuukw v. B.C. is a pivotal decision in the evolution of Canadian law on Aboriginal rights.Numerous meetings, round-tables, workshops and conferences have been held to discuss its potential impact on litigation and negotiation.1 Delgamuukw has also served as a vehicle for discussion of more fundamental issues such as the appropriateness of selecting the judicial forum to resolve Aboriginal title claims and the role of legal reasoning in furthering the process of colonization.2 Given the influence of British colonial law on the development of Aboriginal rights jurisprudence in former British colonies and the restrictions placed by evidentiary presumptions originating in English courts, Delgamuukw may also have persuasive precedential value outside of Canada. In particular, the Supreme Court's elaboration of the concept of Aboriginal rights and its discussion of the weight to be given to oral histories may influence other commonwealth courts which face the demanding task of accommodating the rights of colonized peoples within a contemporary political and legal rights regime.3

Reaching Just Settlements: Land Claims in British Columbia

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
J. R. Miller ◽  
Frank Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Land Claims

scholarly journals Implementation of natural disturbance-based management in northern British Columbia

2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Craig DeLong
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Patch Size ◽  
Natural Disturbance ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Stage Distribution ◽  
Natural Range ◽  
Landscape Units ◽  
Northeast Corner

Ecologically based landscape units and associated characteristics of natural disturbance (e.g., seral stage and patch size distribution) were recently developed for the northeast corner of British Columbia and used as the basis for establishing guidance and policy for natural disturbance-based management for two large timber supply areas. I discuss the development of the landscape units; development of guidance for the units; and implementation of the guidance for old forest, interior old forest, and early seral patch size objectives. This paper demonstrates how natural-disturbance-based management can be successfully implemented. Key words: natural-disturbance-based management, natural range of variability, seral stage distribution, old-forest requirements, patch size, guidance, implementation

Mountain pine beetle, global markets, and the British Columbia forest economy

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1313-1321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brant Abbott ◽  
Brad Stennes ◽  
G. Cornelis van Kooten
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
The United States ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Export Tax ◽  
Pine Beetle ◽  
Near Term

A number of near-term timber supply shocks are projected to impact global forest product markets, particularly mountain pine beetle induced timber reductions, a Russian log export tax, and timber supply increases from plantation forests in the Southern Hemisphere and Sweden. We examined their effect on a number of global jurisdictions using a dynamic global forest products trade model that separates British Columbia (BC) into coastal and interior forest sectors. The results suggest that global increases in plantation timber would have negligible effects on BC log and lumber markets, that the Russian tax would have minor effects on this market, and that the beetle-induced timber supply drop would moderately increase BC prices (primarily log prices). In the United States South, lumber and log prices could rise as a result of the mountain pine beetle, while other shocks will have a negligible impact on prices. Yet, lumber production will fall because log prices will increase substantially more than lumber prices. Japan could be impacted much more than other regions by the Russian tax on log exports. In the absence of export taxes, a beetle-induced timber shortage would cause lumber production in Japan to rise (as Japan can access nearby Russian logs), while the export tax would reduce lumber production because log prices rise disproportionately more than in other regions.

Double Identities: Aboriginal Policy Agencies in Ontario and British Columbia

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Malloy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Aboriginal Groups ◽  
Policy Communities

This article argues that provincial government units for Aboriginal affairs in Ontario and British Columbia have ''double identities'' stemming from contradictory mandates anchored in two different policy communities. Aboriginal policy agencies act as Crown negotiators with Aboriginal nations over land claims and self-government, but are also responsible for co-ordinating government policies affecting Aboriginals. Consequently, they interact with two different policy communities. One involves economic and resource ministries, which engage in a pressure pluralist relationship with Aboriginal groups. The second involves social policy ministries who engage in more clientele pluralist relationships with Aboriginals. Consequently, Aboriginal policy agencies display different identities and play different and sometimes contradictory roles. These ''double identities'' illustrate the complexity and contradictions of provincial-Aboriginal relations in Canada.

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