{"id":137217,"date":"2023-01-24T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=137217"},"modified":"2023-01-24T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:31:24","slug":"forestry-cooperative-explores-value-added-timber-products-as-way-to-do-more-with-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/forestry-cooperative-explores-value-added-timber-products-as-way-to-do-more-with-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Forestry cooperative explores value-added timber products as way to do more with less"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the BC government, recent projections<\/a> indicate there will be a decline in timber supply by 2025 throughout the province.<\/p>\n

As a result, the Cortes Island Community Forestry Cooperative (CCFC)<\/a> is hoping to find creative ways to repurpose timber on the island. The organization is holding a public meeting this weekend that aims to get public input on creating value added wood products from timber harvested on its nearly 4,000 hectare tenure.<\/p>\n

\"Value-added products include treated lumber, engineered wood products, shakes and shingles, posts, poles, log and timber-frame homes, mouldings, pallets, boxes, cabinets, furniture, art and other finished or semi-finished goods. These products generate more economic value per unit, but their manufacture is typically marked by low volumes of output,\" the BC government wrote<\/a> in A Vision and Action Plan<\/em>
\nfor Further Manufacturing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In November, the CCFC put out an initial call<\/a> for proposals for the creation of value-added products. However, the response from Cortes Island citizens was minimal.<\/p>\n

CCFC president Carrie Saxifrage says it's an opportune time as the BC government invests $90 million<\/a>\u00a0in forestry dependent communities for secondary manufacturing.<\/p>\n

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An artist carved post in the Saxifrage home on Cortes Island. Photo by Greg Osoba.<\/p><\/div>\n

Saxifrage says the organization is a partnership between the non-Indigenous community on Cortes Island and the Klahoose First Nation<\/a>. She adds that the public input from the upcoming meeting will result in a roadmap to guide the creation of locally made value added wood products: Saxifrage sees the strategy as a way for forestry dependent communities to create jobs and determine their own destiny as timber supplies dwindle.<\/p>\n

Funding for the initiative comes from timber sales from the CCFC's logging operations and a $20,000 grant received from the Island Coastal Economic Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CCFC meeting will be held Saturday, Jan. 28<\/a>, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Klahoose First Nation multi-purpose building.<\/p>\n

Saxifrage discusses the process and possibilities in the interview below with CKTZ News:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the BC government, recent projections indicate there will be a decline in timber supply by 2025 throughout the province. As a result, the Cortes Island Community Forestry Cooperative (CCFC) is hoping to find creative ways to repurpose timber on the island. The organization is holding a public meeting this weekend that aims to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":137225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,16830],"tags":[22691,22692,314,22690,20388],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137217"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137586,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137217\/revisions\/137586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137217"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=137217"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=137217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}