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Stumpage

Stumpage meaning

Trees and other standing timber, treated as a commodity. | The value of this timber. | The right to fell such timber.

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B.C. Conservatives promise to end stumpage fees, review fire management if electedtheglobeandmail.

In Canada, lumber-producing provinces set so-called stumpage fees for timber harvested from Crown land, a system that U.S. producers — forced to pay market rates — consider an unfair subsidy.

Those higher prices are being driven by a lack of supply and the fact the B.C. government set a higher stumpage fee — a fee individuals and companies pay to harvest lumber on crown land — early in the pandemic, but Priddle said demand hasn't decreased.

Some believe the province should change that equation by slashing stumpage fees, which would hopefully lower the price of logs and make it easier for mills to turn a profit.

U.S. industry has previously argued low B.C. stumpage fees amount to an unfair subsidy of the industry in trade complaints.