Lakes Timber Supply Area gets new allowable cut
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BURNS LAKE–A new allowable cut for the Lakes Timber Supply Area (TSA) has been announced.
The new allowable annual cut of 970,000 cubic metres was announced by Diane Nicholls, Chief Forester in response to the end of the mountain pine beetle epidemic and salvage of dead pine in the Lake TSA.
The new cut level comes with partitions including, a maximum of 400,000 cubic metres per year is attributable to live coniferous volume, a maximum of 20,000 cubic metres per year is attributable to live deciduous volume and a maximum of 550,000 cubic metres a year is attributable to dead volume.
The new cut level is around 41 percent lower than the previous allowable annual cut of 1,648,660 cubic metres–only six percent lower than harvest levels over the past two years.
