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New Brunswick establishes task forces to determine timber objectives

FREDERICTON – The chairs of two task forces set-up to establish timber objectives for Crown and private land have been announced.

FREDERICTON – The chairs of two task forces set-up to establish timber objectives for Crown and private land have been announced.

Norman Betts will chair the Crown Land Task Force, which will make recommendations to the provincial government by July 1 on timber objectives for New Brunswick’s public forests. Betts is a member of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and is a former provincial minister of finance.

Donald Floyd, interim dean of the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick, is the chair of the Private Land Task Force. This task force has a mandate to set timber objectives that provide a stable and predictable wood supply from private land.