The Conservation Council of New Brunswick today welcomed the release of the Task Force report on Forest Diversity and Wood Supply. The report is the outcome of three years of work, chaired by UNB Forestry professor Thom Erdle, and including the participation of the Conservation Council’s policy director David Coon. The government today is also publicly releasing a summary of the CIBC-Woodbridge report that deals with New Brunswick’s forestry industry’s place in the global market place.

— Don Roberts (the CIBC analyst) began his press conference statement yesterday by saying “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” —

Read more on the options being proposed in the Erdle Task Force and how they rank in terms of conservation here: http://www.conservationcouncil.ca/files/Publications/Options_Rank_En.pdf