A key policy implication of these results is that
large BC coastal operations have a market incentive to underwrite incremental silviculture. These
same companies have borne the brunt of environmental 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, enhanced silviculture is generally more profitable on
the Coast than in the BC Interior region (see Benson, 1988; Thompson et al., 1992) . Abstracting from the uncertainty inherent with the public
ownership of BC forestland, policy in pursuit of
sustainable forestland management can capitalize
upon this characteristic.