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Many Canadians think that high productivity old-growth logging has already been banned ... Two days later, another one emerged, deep in the BC interior near Revelstoke. Both are unaffiliated ...
explaining why and how to preserve BC’s vanishing coastal and interior primary and old-growth forests. All 14 report recommendations were agreed to, including an immediate deferral of logging ...
a woodsman and trapper from Prince George in BC’s vast interior. “Given 75 years of logging, there are very few old growth forests left. I just look in my area. I would say we’ve harvested ...
A government proposal to keep mills in the British Columbia Interior operating by allowing ... said if the government opts to keep mills going by logging old growth, wildlife corridors and other ...
Protecting old-growth forests in the BC interior could generate more than $43 billion over the next century — far more than logging the land, a report says. Research by environmental consultancy ...
Old-growth trees are already being cut to make way for a logging road in the Argonaut Valley of British Columbia ... “B.C.’s interior rainforest is a hidden ecological jewel along the eastern ...
Old-growth forests, wildlife corridors and other long-protected timber zones in the British Columbia Interior could be opened up to logging in order to keep mills operating, according to a cabinet ...
The BC government’s approach to logging in the ... In B.C., most interior forests, and specifically those within the Prince George area, are defined as old growth if they are more than 140 ...
The report was commissioned by the province to review how old ... of the Interior wet belt. (Submitted by University of Northern British Columbia) But DellaSala says clear-cut logging is still ...
More than three years after announcing plans to defer logging of old-growth forests, the British Columbia government ... and in the Interior at least 140 years old. According to the province ...
Hundreds of years of commercial logging have decimated British Columbia’s forests ... B.C., old growth is classified as anything older than 250 years old on the coast and 140 years in the Interior, a ...
Nevertheless, the latter took the land and leased forested areas to logging companies. Today just 20% of British Columbia’s old-growth forests remain. In 2020, after decades of activist pressure ...