A 1988 study, by the North Cariboo Community Futures board found that in a 12 hour working day, low impact selective logging moved 6 to 10 cubic meters of wood, as opposed to industrial methods moving over 400 cubic meters. Aside from employment, these kinds of forests include others - like trappers, tourism, and public recreation, cultural heritage, rural water users, and future generations of Canadians. The inseparable link between a healthy economy and a productive forest has been very clear on Haida Gwaii. Merv Wilkinson estimates that two people could be employed in perpetuity based on the wholistic management of 250 hectares of coastal forest. Moving the management of forest lands onto an ecological foundation, let alone community governance, is a different pile of slash altogether.
Stewardship can never be 'implemented' through policy and politics.
Rather it is a process of personal adjustment, recognizing our intrinsic interconnection with resources and need to survive.