This paper examines how colonial land grants and the neoliberalization of forestry policy have enabled an aggressive harvesting regime on a massive tract of private land on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. We detail the intensity of industrial logging activities of three forestry companies—Island Timberlands, TimberWest, and Western Forest Products—on private land on Vancouver Island. We draw on 11 years of harvesting volume records from the public British Columbia Harvest Billing System to examine the rate of harvest on private land by the aforementioned companies. The paper maps the harvesting volumes we report in relation to forest land ownership and the boundaries of land grants to demonstrate the enduring settler-colonial character of fee simple forest land and industrial harvesting activities. We argue that neoliberal legislation introduced in 2003 deregulated forestry operations on private lands, facilitating the harvesting regimes we detail. We further suggest that settler-colonial enclosures set in motion by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Company land grants starting in 1884 have been foundational to the establishment and management of private forest lands on Vancouver Island and continue to represent barriers for Indigenous communities as they assert their rights and title to private forest land.

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私人林地的殖民性：温哥华岛的采伐水平、土地出让和新自由主义

本文研究了殖民土地赠与和林业政策的新自由化如何在不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华岛的大片私人土地上实现积极的采伐制度。我们详细介绍了三个林业公司——Island Timberlands、TimberWest 和 Western Forest Products——在温哥华岛的私人土地上的工业采伐活动强度。我们利用不列颠哥伦比亚省公共收获计费系统 11 年的收获量记录来检查上述公司在私人土地上的收获率。该论文绘制了我们报告的与林地所有权和土地赠与边界相关的采伐量，以展示收费简单林地和工业采伐活动的持久定居者殖民特征。我们认为，2003 年引入的新自由主义立法放松了对私人土地的林业经营的管制，促进了我们详述的采伐制度。我们进一步建议，由 Esquimalt & Nanaimo 铁路公司于 1884 年开始的土地赠与启动的定居者殖民地围栏是温哥华岛上私人林地的建立和管理的基础，并继续成为土著社区的障碍，因为他们主张自己的权利私有林地的权利和所有权.