Editor:
Sarah Lowis of the Living Forest Institute wrote a recent letter to the editor [Coast Reporter, March 11] re. the Sunshine Coast Community Forest. In an age of disinformation, she trots out the usual laundry list of emotive phrases from the fundamentalist, green religion hymnbook.
Coastal B.C. has some of the planet’s most productive forests and the world desperately requires wood products from sustainable forestry, as practiced by SCCF. If we cease to practice forestry in coastal B.C., where shall the world, including B.C., acquire the forest products to build our homes…Brazil, Rwanda, Russia...or some other unsustainable place that is out of sight and out of mind for Ms. Lowis?
SCCF is seeking new directors, who will be assessed on a range of their expertise and views, and their potential for steering the CF through the waters of ill-informed sniping, while supplying the forest products that we all use, managing our tiny tenure (10,700 hectares) for a range of multiple uses, and distributing any profits via our legacy committee, and to our shareholder, the District of Sechelt.
Tony Greenfield
Nominations Committee SCCF
