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Indeed, employment in the BC timber industry has been dropping at a rate of approximately 2 thousand jobs per year. 5 times the number of jobs per thousand cubic metres of timber (Hammond 1991, pp. 78-80). These disparities continue despite dramatic increases in harvest levels. 5 billion cubic metres of wood, but half of this has been cut since 1977. 3 million cubic metres on Crown forestland, well above the government·s own estimated long-run sustained yield 36 ʌ OFF COURSE target of 59 million cubic metres per year (Travers 1992, p.

13). Agriculture remains a cornerstone of the Canadian economy. As such, it is a $50 billion (CA) a year industry that directly and indirectly employs 14 percent of the country·s work force and contributes approximately one-third of the nation·s trade surplus. Yet, only 5 percent of Canada·s land base has the capacity to sustain agricultural food crops and virtually all of this is currently being used, leaving little room for future expansion of food production. Ultimately, all civilizations depend on the ecological availability of their agricultural base, as the environmental archaeology of 30 ʌ OFF COURSE ancient civilizations makes clear.

While the supply lasts, tight growth rings and few knots make BC·s old-growth lumber stronger and more reliable than secondgrowth timber, but that quality comes at a price. HOW CANADA HAS MISUSED ITS ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT ʌ 37 Much of this old-growth timber is located in mountains and other scarcely accessible areas that are ecologically highly sensitive and prime wilderness-recreation regions, making harvesting costs among the world·s highest. By contrast, states such as Georgia and Alabama increasingly rely on plantation operations to raise trees such as southern pine.

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