More of the B.C. Central Interior’s timber rights are back in First Nations hands. The Ministry of Forests sat down at the BC Natural Resources Forum in Prince George to transfer about one million cubic metres of the Morice Timber Supply Area (TSA) to a coalition including the Witset, Wet’suwet’en, and Lake Babine Nations. …During the signing ceremony, where nine of the region’s chiefs put their names on the dotted line, Lake Babine Nation leader Wilf Adam pointed out that the coalition had gone first to Canfor with a “fair market value” offer to buy it, but the company refused and closed communications. Adam added that the spinoff effect was a stalled and unstable local economy in the Burns Lake-Granisle-Houston-Smithers-Witset region.