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Journalism: The over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity
Journalism: Loss of forest-related employment
Journalism: The need to expedite final treaties with First Nations
Journalism: Loss of primary forest
Journalism: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity
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Noteworthy writing and reports from the forest-industrial complex
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Library: The over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: Loss of primary forest
Library: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests
Make conservation of the hydrological function of forests a higher priority than timber extraction
Library: Loss of forest-related employment
Library: The need to expedite final treaties with First Nations
Transition from clearcut logging to selection logging
Library: Increase in forest fire hazard
Journalism: End public subsidization of BC's forest industry
Library: End public subsidization of BC's forest industry
Library: The need to reform BC forest legislation
Journalism: The need to reform BC forest legislation
Library: Creating a new vision for BC forests
Forest industry public subsidy calculator
Manufacturing and processing facilities
Forest Trends
Investigations
Community Forest Mapping Projects
Area-based calculations of carbon released from clearcut logging
Journalism: The increase in forest carbon emissions
Library: Increase in forest carbon emissions
To protect biodiversity, transition away from clearcut logging
Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance
Library: Loss of future employment resulting from exporting raw logs
Mapping old forest on Vancouver Island
Mapping old forest in Omineca Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Skeena Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Northeastern Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Cariboo Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in South Coast Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Thompson-Okanagan Natural Resource Region
Mapping old forest in Kootenay-Boundary Natural Resource Region
Forest Conservation Organizations
Mapping old forest on Haida Gwaii
Mapping old forest on the central coast
Library: Ecologically damaging practices
Journalism: Ecologically damaging practices
Critical Issues
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Listed species: Cascades Natural Resource District
Listed species: 100 Mile House Natural Resource District
Listed species: Campbell River Natural Resource District
Listed species: Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District
Listed species: Chilliwack River Natural Resource District
Listed species: Fort Nelson Natural Resource District
Listed species: Haida Gwaii Natural Resource District
Listed species: Mackenzie Natural Resource District
Listed species: Nadina Natural Resource District
Listed species: North Island Natural Resource District
Listed species: Peace Natural Resource District
Listed species: Prince George Natural Resource District
Listed species: Quesnel Natural Resource District
Listed species: Rocky Mountain Natural Resource District
Listed species: Sea-to-Sky Natural Resource District
Listed species: Selkirk Natural Resource District
Listed species: Skeena Natural Resource District
Listed species: South Island Natural Resource District
Listed species: Stuart-Nechako Natural Resource District
Listed species: Sunshine Coast Natural Resource District
Listed species: Thompson Rivers Natural Resource District
Listed species: Coast Mountains Natural Resource District
Action Group: Divestment from forest-removal companies
Fact-checking mindustry myths
First Nations Agreements
Monitor: BC Timber Sales Auctions
BC Timber Sales auction of old-growth forests on Vancouver Island
Monitoring of forest fires in clearcuts and plantations: 2021
Library: End public subsidization of forest industry
Examples of engaging the mindustry:
Portal: The over-exploitation of BC forests
Portal: The need to reform BC forest legislation
Portal: The need to expedite treaties with First Nations
Portal: The need to get more organized, informed and inspired for change
Portal: Develop a new relationship with forests
Portal: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity
Portal: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests
Portal: Increase in forest fire hazard
Portal: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity
Portal: Increase in forest carbon emissions
Portal: Ecologically damaging forestry practices
Portal: Loss of forest-related employment
Portal: Loss of future employment resulting from raw log exports
Portal: Costs of floods, fires and clearcutting of watersheds
Portal: The economic impact on communities of boom and bust cycles
Portal: Loss of economic development by other forest-based sectors
Portal: The true cost of subsidies provided to the logging industry
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Loss of trust in institutions
Portal: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction
Portal: The psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Portal: Loss of trust in institutions caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Portal: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Journalism: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction
Journalism: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Journalism: Loss in trust of institutions as a result of over-exploitation of BC forests
Journalism: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction
Library: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Library: Loss of trust in institutions as a result of over-exploitation of BC forests
Library: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests
Resources: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction
Resources: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles
Resources: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors
Journalism: Cost of floods, fires and clearcutting of community watersheds
Journalism: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles
Journalism: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors
Library: Cost of floods, fires and clearcutting of community watersheds
Library: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles
Library: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors
Portal: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads
Portal: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Journalism: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads
Library: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads
Journalism: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Library: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Resources: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips
Resources: Ecologically damaging forestry practices
Resources: Conversion of forests to permanent logging roads
Library: Getting organized
Journalism: Getting organized
Forest politics
Forest Stewards
Portal: Plantation failure
Library: Plantation failure
Journalism: Plantation failure
Library: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity
Portal: Soil loss and damage
Journalism: Soil loss and damage
Library: Soil loss and damage
Resources: Soil loss and damage
Journalism: Loss of employment resulting from export of raw logs
Journalism: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity
Journalism: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests
Journalism: Increase in forest fire hazard
Action Group: Sunlighting professional reliance
Making the case for much greater conservation of BC forests
Science Alliance for Forestry Transformation
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Economic State of the BC Forest Sector
Big tree mapping and monitoring
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Physical impacts created by logging industry
Nature Directed Stewardship at Glade and Laird watersheds
References for: How did 22 TFLs in BC evade legal old-growth management areas?
References for: BC's triangle of fire: More than just climate change
References for: Teal Cedar goes after Fairy Creek leaders
References for: Is the draft framework on biodiversity and ecosystem health something new? Or just more talk and log?
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. 2011 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf -
A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. 2012 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. 2013 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. 2014 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. 2015 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. 2016 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. 2017 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. 2020 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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A publication of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. 2019 Economic State of British Columbia's Forest Sector.pdf
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Dr Younes Alila, UBC professor of forest hydrology
Raven Tree commented on Taryn Skalbania's record in IWTF events, articles and videos
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Forestry definitely doesn't pay the bills, folks
Raven Tree commented on David Broadland's report in Investigations
The need to shift the traditional view of nature held by conventional economics is presented beautifully in this short video from the University of Cambridge featuring Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta: -
Forests, Lands, Natural Resources and Rural Development Minister Doug Donaldson announced in February 2018 that a Panel would review British Columbia (BC) Forest Inventory Program. The announcement included the Panel members as Bill Bourgeois, Clark Binkley, Valerie LeMay, Ian Moss and Nick Reynolds. Key functions of BC’s Forest Inventory Program include: Undertaking new forest inventories to replace older ones Maintaining existing forest inventories through updates Ground sampling and re-measurement of natural (unmanaged) stands Monitoring the post-harvest growth of managed stands Providing models to project stand development and future yield. The BC Forest Inventory Panel undertook a review of the Forest Inventory Program between April and September 2018. The Panel’s work included reviewing the existing program, requesting and then evaluating written submissions, interviewing key users and developers, and assessing programs in other provinces and jurisdictions. This report summarizes the Panel’s findings and provides recommendations on possible improvements to the BC Forest Inventory Program. British Columbia Forest Inventory Review Panel Technical Background Report (2018).pdf
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Submission by Anthony Britneff and Martin Watts Our submission is based on a number of questions originally submitted by the opposition forest critic to the forest minister during the 2014 and 2016 Estimates Debates and on the ministerial responses to those questions prepared by MFLNRO&RD for the forest minister. While FAIB managers seem to consider the 2014 and 2016 Estimates Debate questions to be some sort of personal condemnation of staff work, the questions are simply a reflection of real issues encountered in the course of completing contracts for clients and issues that FAIB managers chose to ignore, such as: • MFLNRO&RD data management problems were identified when validating MFLNRO&RD data under contract for FAIB for use in parameterizing1 VDYP7 and problems identified when preparing data for PrognosisBC calibration under a contract for RPB, • SIBEC problems were identified while under contract to RPB to assess the use of SIBEC data for planning and investing in silviculture activities under the LBIS and, •SIBEC, TASS/TIPSY, biomass conversion and access to data problems were identified during the quantification, validation and verification of forest carbon offsets projects to ISO standards, which require uncertainty to be documented and, if possible, quantified in order to account for it. In this submission, we go through the questions on the DVD (provided separately) in reference to the forest minister’s responses, while adding any relevant updates. We also incorporate these subject areas: • Individual tree volume, • Additional ground sample programs and the analyses associated with them, • The culling of the PSPs, • The debate between the YSM and SDM programs and, • The TSR and AAC determination processes with respect to VRI attribute adjustment, VRI statistical analysis, G&Y model assumptions and the use of monitoring data. A submission to the Forest Inventory Program Review Panel (2018).pdf
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Report produced by the ministry of forests This document is the sustainable forest management report for British Columbia (B.C.). Sustainable forest management (SFM) is concerned with maintaining the long-term health of forest ecosystems while providing environmental, economic, and social opportunities for present and future generations.1 Through national and international agreements, the set of topics and statistics (called indicators) to include in an SFM report have been identified.2 Jurisdictions around the world monitor, assess, and report on SFM in conformance with these agreements. The content of The State of British Columbia′s Forests was guided by these agreements and is consistent with State of the Forest reports from major forest jurisdictions around the world.3 The purpose of this report is two-fold: • to provide information on the condition of British Columbia′s forest and range resources, and the environmental, social, and economic values associated with these resources; and • to provide an assessment of that information. In this report, detailed information and assessments are provided for 91 indicators, grouped into 24 topic areas. In the section below, key findings are summarized by eight central themes for SFM reporting that are widely used around the world. The majority of the data in this summary and throughout the report is current to 2008. In a few cases, data from 2009 is presented, and in other cases, only older data is available. 2010 State of the Forests report optimized.pdf
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By BC Ministry of Forests and Range staff The current, historically unprecedented outbreaks of mountain pine beetle and Dothistroma needle blight in British Columbia are strong indicators that relationships between pests, hosts and climate are being altered as climate changes. Numerous recent pest epidemics elsewhere in North America provide further strong evidence of the impact of changing climate on forest ecosystems. The interactions between pests, hosts and climate are complex, have co-evolved over centuries, and in many instances, are not well understood. This, together with the uncertainty associated with how regional climates will change, makes it difficult to predict the responses of specific pests to climate change. However, as climate changes, the environmental parameters under which present forests were established will change. When these changes result in increasingly sub-optimal conditions, trees will become physiologically stressed. Stressed trees are generally more attractive, more nutritious, and less resistant to many forest pests. Changes in thermal and moisture environments, combined with changes to host plant conditions, will interact synergistically facilitating the development of insect and pathogen outbreaks. The incidence of forest decline syndromes is also likely to increase as a result of general reductions in forest health. Large scale, pest-caused forest decline and mortality will have long-term ecological, social and economic consequences. Timber supplies, water resources as well as other forest resources will be impacted. We anticipate increasing levels of mortality in the standing inventory in many Timber Supply Areas in the province as a result of forest pest activity. Much of the immature growing stock will also be affected by increasing levels of pest-caused mortality, growth losses and regeneration delays. Although the mountain pine beetle epidemic represents a current extreme, in many Timber Supply Areas it is possible that the combined impacts of multiple pests under the influence of climate change could approach a similar magnitude of impact on the remaining timber resource. Although there is still much uncertainty regarding the severity and extent of climate change, there are strategies, which could be implemented to mitigate the impacts on forest health. We provide concise recommendations that would better track changing forest health conditions, increase our ability to forecast pest related impacts of climate change, increase the effectiveness of forest planning by proactively incorporating forest health issues and improve our abilities to prevent, mitigate and adapt to changing forest pest conditions. The unprecedented and concurrent outbreaks of insects and diseases in BC emphasize the need to expedite an action plan on the following nine recommendations of equal importance: 1. Mandate expanded forest health monitoring for forest health agents at the landscape, watershed and stand level, as a component of ministry responsibility; 2. Build a forest health research section; 3. Implement modelling projects to predict future forest health impacts; 4. Maintain forest health strategies and develop climate change risk assessments for each Timber Supply Area; 5. Review and revise legislation and policy to identify forest health risks and strategies within forest stewardship plans; 6. Institute landscape-level planning for forest health, as well as for other values; 7. Develop and implement hazard- and risk-rating systems for forest insects and diseases; 8. Implement changes to tree species selection and stocking standards to enable facilitated migration; 9. Enable the research and development of products and tactics for the treatment of forest insects and diseases. The management of forest lands has clearly become more challenging as a result of climate change. We believe that our current forest management paradigm, which assumes stable climates and stable forest conditions, could be improved to better cope with highly uncertain future forest conditions. Forest management needs to respond and adapt to accommodate the diverse and innovative practices we will require to manage our forests into the future. The Implications of Climate Change to Forest Health in British Columbia-A Report to the Chief Forester (2009).pdf
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(By BC Ministry of Forests and Range staff) This report on the state of British Columbia’s forests is designed to inform both general and technical readers about our forests from a particular viewpoint – that of sustainability. As chief forester, it is my role to advise government and inform the public on sustainable forest management. Currently, many sources provide factual information on parts of this complex topic, however few if any provide an overview that is both accessible and comprehensive. In addition to providing factual information, this report presents assessments of sustainability by Ministry of Forests and Range staff. I hope that both the facts and the assessments will encourage informed, constructive discussion. A periodic review of our forests, including environmental, economic, social and governance aspects, can show us how far we’ve come and help us decide where future actions would be desirable. New pressures such as climate change and the mountain pine beetle epidemic affect all aspects of our forests and therefore require holistic responses. One example, begun in 2005, is the Future Forest Ecosystems of British Columbia initiative, which aims to maintain and enhance the resilience of the province's forest ecosystems. This report presents 24 indicators based on international and national frameworks of indicators for assessing sustainable forest management. It emphasizes issues important to British Columbia. The six indicators published in the 2004 edition are repeated, four of them with changes and updated data. New, detailed information is provided for six additional indicators. Overviews are provided for the remaining 12 indicators that will be fully developed in future editions of the report. Your feedback on this report’s approach, format and level of information is welcomed and will help us improve subsequent editions. With two-thirds of British Columbia covered by forests, British Columbians have a real stake in, and many opportunities to contribute to, sustainable forest management. Using the best science-based information available to make informed decisions, we can ensure that the forests of British Columbia continue to provide their many benefits to future generations. Jim Snetsinger, RPF Chief Forester Ministry of Forests and Range 2006 State of the Forests report.pdf
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THIS REPORT FROM 2004 shows that the ministry was optimistically predicting much higher growth in its plantations than has turned out to be the case. At the time the report was written, it was well known in the ministry what the implications of the Mountain Pine Beetle would likely be (the loss turned out to be not as bad as was believed would be the case at the time). So the MPB can't be blamed for the miscalculation of timber supply around this time. The report predicted timber supply would be about 74 million cubic metres per year by 2020. The actual harvest in that year, which followed the closure of dozens of mills in BC's Interior due to a shortage of timber supply, was around 50 million cubic metres. In other words, BC's Chief Forester Jim Snetsinger signed off on a timber supply analysis that predicted there would be 50 percent more timber available in 2020 than there actually was. The result was many years of over-cutting of healthy forests. 2004 State of the Forests MoF.pdf
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Annual capacity, volume of trees required, associated carbon emissions released, number of employees Lumber mills Pulp and paper mills Veneer, plywood, OSB and other panel mills Shake and shingle mills Pellet Mills Chip mills Log exports Hog fuel Log availability
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FROM TIME TO TIME, the ministry of forests conducts a survey of major forest industry manufacturing and processing facilities in the province. Responding to the survey is voluntary. The survey provides useful information about what products, and the quantities, are manufactured by different facilities. The last survey that has been made public was conducted for 2020. The 2020 mill survey: Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in BC 2020.pdf The 2019 mill survey: Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in BC 2019.pdf The 2018 mill survey: Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in BC 2018.pdf The 2017 mill survey: Major Primary Timber Processing Facilities in BC 2017.pdf The 2016 mill survey: The 2016 mill survey.pdf The 2015 mill survey: The 2015 mill survey.pdf The 2014 mill survey: The 2014 mill survey.pdf
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Walker Wilderness Rainforest Proposal: Conservation North
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