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Fred Morgan
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:13 am |
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Lucía recently attended a seminar on evaluating plantations. She said that the the forestry ministry (I don't know if I got the name right) said that many loggers are destroying plantations by high grading plantations.
This is a very serious thing. Much of the value in plantations comes later, if you keep take the best trees, you will be eventually losing the end result.
The estimate last year was in 5 years Costa Rica would have to import wood, now it is 3 years.
Also, because there is so much demand for wood, the pressure to poach is growing. While we were returning from the plantation on Saturday we saw some loggers almost certainly poaching trees - they had no stickers, and they looked pretty worried when they saw us.
Not only were they poaching, they were destroying the roads too. Not to get on a soap box too much here, but I find those who poach, don't care about destroying the land as well as the roads by hauling the logs out during the rainy season.
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LogRite
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:23 am |
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| I assume a call to the local authorities would probably go unheeded. My friend JJ who owns some property down there says folks would look the other way if it wasn't harming them directly. A lot of stuff is fenced in and locked up a night. I guess it's tough to do that with trees.
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Fred Morgan
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 01:27 am |
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Actually, I suspect that a call was made, and they will respond. Let's just say one of our passengers was pretty angry... 
MINAE does arrest people, confiscate the wood and equipment, and at times, put them in jail.
Yes, you secure things, but poaching of trees is normally done with the permission of the own. Of course, if you are an absentee owner, then you might come back and find someone harvested your trees for you. 
We have full-time people living on both fincas so we don't have any problem.
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