FIVE YEAR PLAN

The CFGP is working on preparing a draft map of the 5 year plan ready to share with the community early this fall.

The 5-year plan will show the areas where the CFGP is considering developing access to, and logging in, over the next five years.

The five-year plan is something that has been in the works for over a year and is intended to give the community, contractors, and value added producers an opportunity to see what the next five years might look like.

The Carrington Project that is currently being considered is one of several that are part of the five year plan. There are only a limited number of places within the community forest that are accessible, and figuring out the best way to access the land base is an ongoing process.

LONG TERM FORESTRY BUSINESS

As a long term forestry business, the CFGP has a core mandate to sustainably manage the forest in a way that provides a consistent supply of high quality logs to local buyers.

Given that the community forest is still a very new business and the local value added sector is not yet equipped with the capacity to use smaller logs, cedar butt logs with a lot of rot, and off species logs, there is a need in the short term to to sell a limited number of logs off island to other buyers.

The CFGP has yearly costs for staff, consulting professionals, rent for the land base, and many other miscellaneous costs that have to be paid regardless of whether any logs are sold. As a business the CFGP does need to sell logs every year to both pay for it’s own operating expenses, and also to supply our local mills.

Most of the small carpentry and construction businesses on Cortes are already using at least some community forest lumber and this is growing. The logs supplied by the community forest provide employment for several mills, carpenters, and other wood workers on the Island.

Over the longer term, the CFGP will be working to harvest and grow timber in the areas of the community forest where it makes the most sense, both ecologically, and economically.

Care will always be taken to respect other values such as tourism and recreation, and the CFGP values the role of our forests in fostering a healthy community for residents and visitors alike.
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NEW ROAD BUILDING

In order to access the community forest land base, the CFGP must work with a wide range of landowners whose land border on the community forest. In some cases there are existing roads that may be shared, and in some cases the CFGP will need to build new roads.

The CFGP recognizes that building road is a high impact activity and that a lighter touch approach can require less road building. That said, we need to find a balance as there are limitations to what can be done without building any new roads.

The area where the CFGP is proposing to operate is far enough from the existing trails and popular recreation areas around Carrington that these areas will not be impacted in any serious or long term manner.

The area being considered for the new road is the only access point to this entire area of the community forest, and is one of the only areas that is feasible to work in during the near term. FUTURE

HARVESTING

The area that this road will provide access to is one of the best examples of the longer (100+ year) rotation cycles that the community forest wishes to work with.

Once the new road is built and has had some time to set up, the CFGP will work on two selective harvest projects in the area accessed by the road. There are significant variations in the terrain, forest health, and timber quality, and therefore the harvest technique will vary based on these factors, as well as the distance from the road.

Where the soil is moist and sensitive to rubber tire machinery, the focus will be on using a tracked machine to do selective logging. In areas that are further from the road rubber tire skidder will be used during dry season to forward logs to the road in order to reduce the amount of road that needs to be built.

There are also several patches of diseased hemlock that are in need of rehabilitation and that would benefit from logging to make way for new healthy trees to grow. In it’s planning the CFGP is always looking for opportunities to tie in rehab projects with it’s broader harvest activities in order to pay for the rehab.

The CFGP will continue to update it’s plans as the public consultation process moves forward and that input is integrated with the planning.