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1 given advantage to broadleaf planting and that has been
2 taken up on a very substantial scale.
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4 Q. In your chart on page 2 of your statement, you have
5 "Productive Forest" as a heading. Can you explain what
6 you mean specifically by "Productive Forest" as opposed to
7 "Total Forest"?
8 A. It is forest that has been designated within those
9 countries as being available for harvesting and
10 regeneration.
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12 Q. The forest that has been used as or designated as
13 productive forest, has the forest industry taken part in
14 the identification of those forests, or has it just
15 happened, you know, as time has gone on, just by chance?
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you mean "the identification"?
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19 MR. MORRIS: Basically, have those forests that have been
20 identified as productive, most productive, productive
21 forests, ones that have been commercially the most
22 efficient?
23 A. Well, I think, obviously, each country and each region
24 defines its own forest in those forms. Every nation has
25 governmental departments whose task is dedicated to
26 ensuring that forests are managed under the current law.
27 I think, therefore, each of those figures given as
28 productive forest is a national statement by their forest
29 service of those individual countries.
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31 Q. I mean, in the choosing of what forest becomes a productive
32 forest, as opposed to whatever else a forest is if it is
33 not identified as productive, then commercial
34 considerations -- what I mean is, are the sites that are
35 identified as "productive forest" generally the sites of
36 forest that are most commercially viable?
37 A. Generally.
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39 Q. "This bit of forest here would be easy to extract; it has a
40 large number of well-built trees of the type we want,
41 therefore, that can be identified as productive forest"?
42 A. If you go the other way around, it might be easier to
43 define, and that is you see there is a heading "Total
44 forest area" and "Million hectares", and then "Productive
45 Forest" area, well, the difference between the two is
46 largely made up of forest areas that have been designated
47 to be non-productive and not available non-available for
48 harvesting; those would be all the forest parks and all the
49 forest reserves, biological or any other form of reserve,
50 and wilderness forest which has been left not to be used
51 economically, as you would describe it.
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53 Thereafter, there are forests which are not available
54 because they are simply not in the public domain and are
55 held privately and not being used in any fashion of an
56 economical nature. So, what you come down to is forests
57 which are quite specifically either owned by the State or
58 owned by companies or owned by individuals who consider
59 them to be productive.
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