Re: UBCM endorses Nanaimo call to ban raw log exports, Sept. 23. I find it amazing that the coast has reduced itself to exporting raw logs because all the processing is gone. There has been a free-for-all in the logging industry for years. Sustainability, in its present form, is a joke. Allocation in cubic meters and planting in units. “3 for 1” is the mantra. Time was never dealt into the model. We have over-harvested, trying to balance the books, for too many years. On a sliding scale of volume in each unit, it always was doomed to collapse. A 4 foot fir has more volume than a 18 inch fir. …If the government is to make a change, private timber must be dealt into the mix. …All old growth must be curtailed because once it is gone, IT IS GONE FOREVER! Remember truck loggers will haul anything, even those hayrack loads of pecker poles.