Local logging tenures belong to the people who live here, says the District of Houston council in one of its strongest statements to date since Canfor shelved plans to replace its closed sawmill with a new one. Saying it is aware the company has put both its licences to cut wood and its closed sawmill up for sale, the District remains “firm in our belief that the harvesting of local logs should be directly tied to local jobs,” it stated in a Sept. 26, 2024 release. “Tenures, in our view, are not mere assets to be traded between large corporations. They belong to the people of this community and region, and ultimately, the people of British Columbia.”