Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There have been areas that have been logged for lumber and fire wood. In some areas of the territories, it takes a long time for trees to reach a mature stage. In Fort Smith, they were cutting fire wood back in the 1920s and 1930s, even in the 1940s, for supplying ships wood for their boilers. The recovery was all natural and it took quite awhile before the trees grew back again to a harvestable stage. If you let nature take its course it will eventually reforest itself, but when you reforest these areas what type of trees are being used? Areas as I mentioned along the Slave River have grown back naturally, but they follow a cycle. They go through a deciduous stage and then eventually the conifers will take over, pine and spruce, et cetera. It takes a long time to go through that cycle. I am wondering what kind of trees they are planting in the Cameron Hills, Jean Marie River and the Liard area.
Tony Whitford on Committee Motion 75-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 21
In the Legislative Assembly on March 1st, 1993. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 75-12(3): To Adopt Recommendation 21
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 28th, 1993
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