Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The department also shares the same concern, but the department also takes the view that to allow, for instance, a community to harvest a minimum of 10,000 cubic meters of timber a year is very conservative. The resource, as we see it, can sustain that very easily. As applications are made, there is a consultation process for communities to have input into the feasibility and the manageability of the requests within the application. First of all, we'll proceed as quickly as we can to do an overall inventory of timber in the Western Arctic; then we will also begin developing a management plan cooperatively with communities so that communities will have hands-on control of the resource that we will identify through the inventory. Thank you.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question 140-13(3): Inventory Of Timber In Nwt
In the Legislative Assembly on May 3rd, 1996. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 140-13(3): Inventory Of Timber In Nwt
Question 140-13(3): Inventory Of Timber In Nwt
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 2nd, 1996
Page 183
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