Thank you. I wish my comms guy was here.
I appreciate that, and you're right, it's something we talk about internally in the membership. One of the things I'm proudest about—and I don't think people really understand it—is just how involved the planning process is to manage the harvest. Across the boreal forest, we deal with individual species-at-risk issues, like the caribou one that's going to be hot this fall. We're managing for 85 mammals across the boreal, over 100 different species of fish, over 300 different types of birds.
Plus, we're managing to suppress fires, to manage pests—pine beetle in the west, spruce budworm in Quebec and Atlantic Canada—and trying to get ahead of the next pest that might come. It's managing for wetlands preservation so the ducks do well, etc. With the involved way...and the amount of planning, we're not mowing down trees, which is what some people like to suggest.
With regard to the other complicating factor, the chief forester from B.C. was talking at a conference this morning about the forests and that they are not static. When we're dealing with warming temperatures, we now see deer in parts of the country move into areas that they weren't before, which means the wolves and the cougars are now following them. The predator–prey relationships are changing. Nutrition conditions in the forest are changing. We're dealing with a very, very complex environment.
I think that's the one piece that I would table before I turn it over to my colleague from mining.