Executive Summary The Potential for Area-Based Harvest Regulation in BC

Improved public understanding: Perhaps the most significant advantage of areabased harvest regulation is the expected increase in public credibility in the timber supply review process and allowable annual cut determinations. Area-based harvest limits are much easier to explain and to understand. They are more intuitively appealing. Harvest levels specified and controlled by area rather than volume units provide a more easily planned and measured verification of sustained-yield objectives, which the public is seeking.