Maybe someone can clear a few things in this issue?
I’m not an expert in forestry but I’ll try to give an idea of what’s going to happen in our forest during the next few years. 
Our Province are divided in 10 zones.
Each zone has a few paper mills who has their own little license to cut wood.
From what I’m told?
Those little license to each paper mill will disappear and it’ll be given to one paper mill only therefore shutting down all the small mills. 
Confusing? Maybe someone else can explain the details?
Now? I also heard that the clearcutting will be expanded.
It will be so large and New Brunswickers would be able to see the clearcutting from the main road.
I remember when I was working down the shipyard. I used to love to drive my vehicle in the back roads and not too often would I see clearcutting.
A person could only witness the clear cutting if they travel behind the mountains or from the air.
I remember the day, then Premier Frank McKenna flew me in a helicopter from St-Martin’s to Saint John.
I did see a lot of clearcutting from the air. It was a fantastic experience!
Of course New Brunswickers are not allowed to write anti-forestry or Anti-Irving letters to the newspapers.
So this blog will have to do I guess?
The bottom line is this? Papermills are going to shut down and large industries are going to take over.
Clearcutting will be witnessed by New Brunswickers from the roadside. 
So? This is what I could gather and if anyone else has more info?
Please share it with the readers.
Merci!
Here's more on the CBC website-
Green group, province, square off on wood supply
Last updated Mar 1 2006 09:49 AM AST
CBC News
An environmental group says the province is giving in to pressure from the large forestry companies by doubling the maximum size of clearcuts.
The Conservation Council of New Brunswick called a news conference Tuesday morning to complain that the government was ignoring the advice of its own committee on the future of the wood supply.
* OFFICIAL SITE: Conservation Council of New Brunswick External site
The council says the province is doubling the maximum size of a clearcut from 100 hectares to 200 hectares, even though the wood supply committee had recommended reducing clear cuts by up to 15 per cent by next year.
David Coon is policy director of the Conservation Council. He says the province can't afford to clearcut on a larger scale. "We were cutting on a level that's on a knife's edge. We're now saying we're going to cut beyond that, beyond what's sustainable for the next five years."
Later in the day, Natural Resources Minister Keith Ashfield had a news conference of his own to rebut the Conservation Council's claims.
He says the province will only allow additional clearcuts in special circumstances. "We can cut next to a clearcut that's been cut in the last five-year period, but it's only in the area we have some science behind. It's not just done willy-nilly."
Ashfield said only woodlands that are susceptible to circumstances like disease and fires will be candidates for new clearcutting. He also said the province is reducing clearcuts wherever it can.
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Yeah, and WHO does the science? You guessed it, the forestry company.
The irony here is that it is clear that the government doesn't care about jobs, only about the lumber companies.
If it disallowed clearcuts and the massive cutting that multinationals do with skidders and focused on selective cutting like the states do and India does then it the forestry industry would need to employ more people.
In India because selective harvesting is mandatory the only way this can be done is with elephants. So India is the only place with a constant supply of wood and the only place in asia where elephants aren't being wiped off the map.
In NB of course they use chainsaws, but there are twice as many workers involved in selective cutting. There are 44000 small woodlot owners who have been complaining for years that the government allows too much wood to be cut.
What's sad is that the next generation of New Brunswickers won't even have an option of what to do with the forests-they won't exist. Nice gift to the future. Here's our debt,and unfortunately you have no forests.
All this so that UPN can harvest quicker and then move to somewhere else. Does anybody really think a norwegian company gives a damn about this province? They just move once the forest is gone.
And that doesn't even get into the fact that clearcuts increase water runoff and flooding.
What a great time to be a New Brunswicker! Evil corporations and brain dead politicians. And New Brunswickers are paying for the whole thing with a quarter billion dollars.
9:45
Skidders and chain saws are the least of your worries. It's the 1 man tree harvesters that are really destroying the landscape!
Buffers mean nothing when the track ruts lead down into the riparian zones of streams and rivers.
They create mud streams of their own. Burying the red beds with silt and destroying the habitat in whatever streams they lead to.
We should rename the Department of Fisheries & Oceans. Henceforth we should call it the DEPARTMENT OF BEACHROCKS AND OCEANS! Because that is what they are doing. They are managing the fishery into extinction! All that will be left is BEACH ROCKS & OCEANS!!
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