tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251250297030815041.post1031652273236632344..comments2023-08-07T22:39:49.127-07:00Comments on Blog Borg Collective: Selected Glossary of the Forest Practices Board with FREE Supplements from WorkSafeBC and ATV Mud-Bogging Don'tsNorth Van's Grumpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17571810726275726952noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5251250297030815041.post-41338175571172964752013-11-18T15:33:45.636-08:002013-11-18T15:33:45.636-08:00Correction: TFLs are long term forest tenures whic...Correction: TFLs are long term forest tenures which include both private and public (Crown) lands---in fact, one must have private land contiguous to crown land to qualify. TFLs are intended to encourage the licence holder to manage their privet portion to the same standards as the Crown portion. Private forest land holders may also put their property into a Managed Forest Unit, where the owner is similarly encouraged to manage to Crown standards, this time in return for a land tax break instead of cutting rights on Crown land.<br /><br />The BC Liberals have been found in breach of public trust by the Auditor General for allowing certain favoured forest companies to escape from MFUs without repaying the discounted tax (an inducement to keep the land in forest production) and then cash out by developing residential real estate. Private portions of existing TFLs have also been withdrawn to facilitate their sale.<br /><br />Check out the waves then-forest minister Rich Coleman created when he allowed WFP to remove thousands of acres from its MFU tax shelter without paying back the discounted tax and without forewarning the local Regional District. Connect those waves with TimberWest's offer to "donate" some of its MFU for the new regional hospital, a P3 scam nobody wanted (both Comox and Campbell River would have lost their hospitals). VIHA shoved it down our throats for years but suddenly shit-canned it immediately upon TiberWest's offer. To no one's surprise, the offer was conditional upon a few hundred adjacent hectares being released from its MFU---without repaying the discounted tax, just like WFP got. Coleman was shuffled out of the forest ministry next day and would not respond to questions from the AG nor the Regional District. scotty on denmannoreply@blogger.com