Commercial VS. Non-commercial Forest
All the area in red is commercial forest and area outside of
that is non-commercial forests.
- Commercial forest is a part of a forest that has large enough trees and is close enough to a market to allow it to be harvested by the forest industry.
- Commercial forests consist of trees that can be harvested profitably.
- They include warmer and wetter areas of Canada where trees grow relatively quickly.
- Those forests where near roads, railways, and waterways, their timber can easily be shipped to markets to anywhere.
- Non-commercial forest is a part of a forest that has trees too small to harvest or is too far away from the market.
- Non-commercial forests are unlikely to be harvested.
- They include north of the commercial forests, where temperatures and precipitation levels are too low for trees to grow quickly or large enough for harvesting.
- Those forests are really hard to transport everywhere because they are too far from transportation routes.
- Non-commercial forest is a part of a forest that has trees too small to harvest or is too far away from the market.
- Non-commercial forests are unlikely to be harvested.
- They include north of the commercial forests, where temperatures and precipitation levels are too low for trees to grow quickly or large enough for harvesting.
- Those forests are really hard to transport everywhere because they are too far from transportation routes.