Emerging science raises questions about health of our future forests.
Last year, Forests Minister Pat Bell claimed that the amount of forestland that was “not sufficiently restocked” and in need of replanting was in the vicinity of 240,000 hectares or 600 Stanley Parks in size. But this week Anthony Britneff, a former public servant who was in his 40th year of service in Bell’s ministry when he retired last year, will vigorously challenge his former boss’s number at the Kelowna conference, suggesting it may be off by a factor of 10 or more.
Ben Parfitt/Policy Note/2011-01-31/Free to grow or free to fail? Emerging science raises questions about health of our future forests
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