Description:
This act revises the law respecting the management, harvesting and protection of the forests of the Province. The forest service supervises, controls and directs all matters relating to among others:
carrying out programs of afforestation, reforestation, forest improvement and tree improvement;
cutting, classifying, measuring, manufacturing, marking and inspection of trees and timber;
preparing timber management plans for areas of productive forest land; and developing and maintaining an up-to-date inventory of the timber resources of the province. A provincial wood supply analysis is conducted every five years.
This regulation concerns:
timber resource analysis - annual allowable cut - exchange of cutting rights - rights to cut Crown timber - Crown timber licence - assignment of a Crown timber licence or a timber sale agreement - Cutting permit - royalties on all timber and classes of timber cut - a lien on all timber cut - seizure of timber - timber harvesting standards - export of timber - taxation - licensing of mills - measures to protect forest.
Goal/Aim:
Regulate protection and management of forests ; regulate timber and timber products.
