Pricing Policy for Community Forests

Whereas non-profit community forests currently pay stumpage to the province using the tabular rate system, and the Province is proposing to move community forests to a market-based stumpage system, that will drastically increase the fees paid; And whereas non-profit, community forest boards will no longer have the funds available to support socio-economic projects, innovative forest practices including wildfire risk reduction, old growth management, and ecosystem restoration initiatives for the communities they operate in. Community forest organizations will be reduced to completing only the minimal forest practice requirements: Therefore be it resolved that the UBCM lobby the province to maintain the current tabular rate stumpage structure for community forests.