High impact forestry has been killing jobs.  Their has been a continual drop in employment in the primary (harvesting) sector of the forest industry. Since 1988 employment in the "logging and forestry" sector nationally has decreased from 500,000 to 360,000 (Statistics Canada 1995).  In New Brunswick the number of people employed in timber harvesting had shrunk from 4,611 in 1965 to 2,057 by 1993. Paradoxically, over the same period, the timber harvest from New Brunswick’s Crown lands has doubled, rising from 2.5 million cubic metres in 1965 to 5.1 million cubic metres in 1998.  This discrepancy is largely due to the increased mechanization of harvesting and processing, and the increase in allowable cut based on extensive silviculture. Curtis Grant has worked on Malcom Fox's woodlot near Nackawic since the 1960s

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