. results also indicate that, as the length duration
of silvicultural work increases, the greater is the
chance that forest companies rely on a salary
scheme.
A key policy implication of these results is that
large BC coastal operations have a market incen-
tive to underwrite incremental silviculture. These
same companies have borne the brunt of environ-
. mental protests both domestic and international
and are the ones most likely affected by current
. certification efforts see Wilson et al., 1998 . As a
consequence, these companies are relatively more
interested in enhanced silviculture. Furthermore,
given the better yields of the coastal region, en-
hanced silviculture is generally more profitable on
the Coast than in the BC Interior region see
.
Benson, 1988; Thompson et al., 1992 . Abstract-
ing from the uncertainty inherent with the public
ownership of BC forestland, policy in pursuit of
sustainable forestland management can capitalize
upon this characteristic.