By Michael Joel-Hansen

Forestry industry seeks feedback on plans

Oct 4, 2018 | 1:00 PM

Forestry industry players are looking to get feedback from the community as they work to develop a new five-year operating plan which will come into effect for 2019.

Sakaw Askiy Management is an umbrella organization that holds the forestry management licence for the Prince Albert forest management agreement area. The organization’s shareholders are made up of a number of companies that operate locally.

Diane Roddy serves as the general manager for the Sakaw Askiy. Roddy said holding these consultations with potentially effected communities are an important part of her organization’s mandate.

“We have a responsibility to work with all of the shareholders on the land base and address concerns and specific issues that they might have with the plans we’re thinking about,” she said.

Sakaw Askiy Management’s shareholders include, Agency Chiefs Forestry, Carrier Forest Products, Edgewood Forest Products, L&M Wood Products, Meadow Lake Mechanical Pulp, Montreal Lake Business Ventures, NorSask Forest Products and Tolko Meadow Lake OSB Division.

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Roddy explained the organization works to reach out to a variety of people who could be impacted by logging operations. These include people who use the areas for recreation or have cottages in the area. They also encompass people who make their living off the land.

“Trappers when you harvest, you’ll change the habitat for the animals that they trap … that’s the kind of things we have discussions about,” Roddy said.

The new five-year operating agreement will be the first one that is developed in conjunction with the 20-year forest management plan which came into effect this summer.

“There’s areas that we are going to be staying out of, for caribou habitat, or because they’re old forest reserves that are required to be left in the landscape,” she said.

An open house was held in Prince Albert Wednesday night at the Coronet Hotel. Further open houses are planned for Weyakwin, Montreal Lake, Hall Lake and La Ronge.

Roddy said they will have the new policy written up by Dec. 1 after all the consultations are completed.

Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 3:24 p.m. on Oct. 4, 2018 to correct a typo. 

MichaelJoel.Hansen@jpbg.ca

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