2024 R23 – Halt Reductions to the Annual Allowable Cut

Whereas forestry is, and continues to be, a critical industry across British Columbia, providing not only well-paying jobs to both urban and rural remote communities, including approximately 1200 direct jobs in Campbell River, but significant tax contributions to fund key municipal infrastructure and provincial services;

And whereas value added manufacturing will be unable to thrive unless primary forestry partners can have predictable, sustainable levels of harvesting land base:

Therefore be it resolved that that AVICC and UBCM Executive call on the Ministry of Forests to immediately halt any further reductions to the Annual Allowable Cut (AAC) and meet with industry to better understand the impacts of a reduced AAC to the entire forest industry.