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WFP says it can't log under proposed Haida Gwaii rules
The impact of the objectives will cut logging rights in half and with that, “half the employment opportunities on Haida Gwaii will be gone,” Western Forest Products says in letters to the Integrated Land Management Bureau. The bureau is now reviewing public responses to the objectives, developed in consultation with the Haida Nation.
Further, in an interview Tuesday, a Western spokesman said the company is considering selling its timber tenures to the Haida Nation. Concerns over costs are a factor in Western’s decision to discuss a sale, said spokesman Gary Ley.
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