"I know what you have to pay for stumpage".
Under the agreement, British Columbia had raised its stumpage fees by 15percentt.
Skillful at foraging, Buster often beat Presta to the hen-of-the-woods mushrooms that commonly grew on oak stumpage.
No price estimate was given, but the average so-called stumpage price for similar saw timber can run about $100 per 1,000 board feet.
He called for the provinces to eliminate any rules that "insulate lumber producers from the market" and to use timber auctions to set stumpage fees.
In Canada, provincial governments own the timber, set harvest levels, restrict the export of raw logs and set stumpage rates (or cutting fees) according to market conditions.
These would double auctions of public timber (to at least 13% of the total cut), and base stumpage rates on those auctions.
The tariff was intended to offset the benefits of what the department called Canadian sawmill subsidies, like low "stumpage" fees paid to harvest trees in government-owned forests.
