Touché Mr. Broadland…suicide as evidenced by the ghost towns dotting the island, interior and north of this province. To strive to be a ‘forestry dependant community’ under this regime of forest management is a fast track to economic suicide.
This is why basic forestry concepts should be explained by those who understand them and are not in the current employ of government and licensees- one does not have to understand basic forestry concepts to KNOW, ‘one doesn't need to be a forester, hydrologist or geomorphologist to grasp that unsustainable overcutting leads to flooding- it is intuitively obvious to the lay person or any independent party.’
And, are many policies and procedures in BC based on, as comments above say.... "assumptions about how forests should be managed" rather than real science, data, facts and research? or optimistic guess work like 'economic discounting'? No wonder, government and industry will not agree on a definition of sustainable or they wll be held to account- sustainable for who , for what and for how long?