I don't think you should fund them any more than you should fund us. What we need help with is (a) the science, so we're using government science as a basis of agreement, and (b) the solution space, convening the process. Working with maps and doing the actual land use planning is very intensive work, so we should go there and do our work with no one paying our way. We think the proper spot for government is bringing it all together.
The interesting thing about the boreal agreement—and it's not talked about this way very often—is that it is a civil society solution. It's not the environmental group saying it's government's job to regulate this and stop it and it's not our going to government saying they should stop these environmental groups from beating us up. For Canada, at least, it's a strangely government-free solution. Two parts of civil society have come together and said they wanted to do business and solve something.
The only place we would like to see government involvement is in creating the meeting place and using government's convening power. You should be telling the industry to stop bickering and the environmental groups to come with solutions because you don't want to hear their complaints any more, and then you should invite us both to the same place and ask if we can solve this. In this case we will.