These are confusing times. In this part of the world, on Canada’s wet coast, we’ve been accused of engaging in politics sometimes out of step with
the rest of the country. Our vast natural resources are always good for a debate about whether they’re being effectively managed, or not. Good thing. We’re reportedly past the peak of beetle-killed wood. Fibre’s king. The government’s ‘action’ plan to find more raises questions.
Now comes word here that a handsome bull elk has been banished from a B.C. Interior ranch, after falling in love with resident cows in heat. Some might fairly ask: what’s that got to do with lumber wholesaling? Such conjugal connections in nature might be seen by some pessimists as representative of supply channels, particularly in the new policy-oriented environment. Some days it’s difficult to detect whose identity more nearly relates to the elk or the cow in the ‘relationship’.