City of Powell River Council has directed staff to write correspondence to the ministry of forests, objecting to correspondence from the ministry regarding Powell River Community Forest’s new forest licence. …Acting mayor Cindy Elliot said the new BCTS plan came out with additional areas for planned forestry that overlapped the community forest’s new timber licence. …The response essentially says that they are not required to do what we asked and they would rather wait until the minister makes a decision before they change what they are doing.” …Councillor Rob Southcott said the community forest indirectly compensates for the loss of a lot of revenue from a major taxpayer due to the permanent curtailment of the paper mill. …“We don’t want BC Timber Sales coming in and starting to log in the area that we believe should be included in the community forest,” said Powell River Community Forest president Greg Hemphill