Logging contractor Ron MacFarlane feels fortunate to have work for his eight-person crew, cutting mostly second-growth Douglas fir on a cut block …on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, while business in his industry is otherwise “flatlined.” “We’re busy until March, and then we’ll see from there,” MacFarlane said at the Truck Loggers Association annual convention.  …Difficulties in getting the province to speed up permits to cut more of that timber has put the industry “in a state of crisis,” said Peter Lister, executive director of the Truck Loggers Association. “I’ve never seen it as bad. …it is really on the edge of collapse.” …For forest-management executive John Mohammed, however, Parmar is still missing a connection to short-term actions the industry desperately needs to free up some of the cutting permits companies have sitting on the shelf because they are uneconomic. …Mohammed said Parmar could take the risk of lowering [coastal] stumpage rates … to help economics.