A match made in Heaven

It improves the chances for the larger stands to grow healthier and clears out the underbrush that clutters up the forest floor, leaving the food sources for deer, moose and other forest creatures. Traditional harvesting involves clearing everything off the land, taking the viable wood to the mills, piling the “junk” into slash piles and burning them.

Pacific Bioenergy is the perfect customer for the wood.

“Pacific Bioenergy uses in or around 800,000 cubic metres a year. As much as a pulp mill would use, but without access to a [timber harvesting] licence, getting that fibre is increasingly difficult, ” says Joe Kenny, Woodlands Manager for Pacific Bioenergy. ”

He says that is particularly true in this age of mill closures now that the Mountain Pine Beetle salvage is complete and the Annual Allowable Cut is dropping. No sawmills, no residuals. It means the perfect marriage. Freya Logging wants to practice sustainable logging and Pacific Bioenergy needs the wood.

And while it is a more intensive style of log harvesting, it may be a direction for the future with a demand for a greener industry.

by Cheryl Jahn

A match made in Heaven

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