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Resources: The increase in carbon emissions from over-exploitation of BC forests
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Most of BC's 2023 wildfires burned in a small area of BC subject to intense industrial development, but nobody is talking about that. Why not?
This whole thing is making me sick to my stomach. Why aren't people outraged, indeed. -
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Tree planters are misinformed about the impact of what they are doing
As a 21-year veteran BC treeplanter who has planted more than a million trees in BC, and who supervised the planting of ten million more, I think you do treeplanters a disservice by implying that they're too stupid to understand the scale of the voracious industrial devastation they are crawling through, or how treeplanting is used as propaganda by the logging industry to justify what they do. All the treeplanters I know are keenly aware of this, and many of them become informed, conscientious forest protection activists as a result of their experience. Nobody quite sees the true state of BC's forest destruction quite like treeplanters do. It is regretable that you also describe treeplanters in PG as "sticking out like a sore thumb." Treeplanters, who bring millions of dollars into the PG economy every year are routinely abused there, -for example, when the the spring season was delayed by a late snowfall and treeplanters were stuck in town, former Mayor Colin Kingsley advocated "throwing all these hippy layabouts out." Since then, I have never spent a single dollar in Prince George. -
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The NDP’s recent revamping of forest legislation returns stewardship of BC forests to the government and provides powerful new tools for the public to make a difference
Awesome work, as ever David! So grateful you're hard at it! As I write, the helicopter is taking timbercruisers past our community here on Denny Island, -off into the heart of the so-called "Great Bear Rainforest," where the bloodshot relentless eye of voracious Big Logging has now turned.. -
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Are recent mill closures a result of too much logging? Or a consequence of Mountain Pine Beetle infestations 1999-2010
What about all the perfectly healthy Doug fir, sub alpine fir and spruce that was indiscriminately harvested along with the dead pine as well as all the advanced regeneration and understory that was trashed by the clearcut logging of species diverse stands all in the name of mountain pine beetle? -
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The NDP’s recent revamping of forest legislation returns stewardship of BC forests to the government and provides powerful new tools for the public to make a difference
Great work, David. I, too, was skeptical about the Eby government's commitment to ecosystem-based management so it's good to see the unduly clause gone. For now, I'm going to give government the benefit of the doubt that the phrase "to the extent practicable" will not be abused to circumvent the intent of the legislation and regulations. Thanks for your analysis, David and your call to action. And thanks to Jennifer Houghton for bringing your article to our attention on the BC Forestry Reform FB page. -
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Leaked data reveals new threat to BC’s old growth forests
And? Here we are nearly 4 months later and this topic seems to be forgotten.
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