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The recommendations of an independent panel report called “A New Future for Old Forests” could serve as the “springboard” to a new and more all-encompassing approach to protecting the province’s old-growth forests, he said.“Addressing the issue of managing old-growth forests while supporting workers and communities has been a challenge in the making for more than 30 years and it won’t be solved immediately, but we know that the status quo is not sustainable,” Donaldson said at a news conference.
Donaldson said work continues to protect up to 1,500 large trees under B.C.’s Special Tree Protection Regulation.Story continues below advertisement Donaldson’s announcement represented a significant step toward protecting old-growth forests, but huge, ancient trees are still being logged in B.C., said Wilderness Committee spokesman Torrance Coste in a news release.
ellenwoodsworth So much spin. So much more logging. Disastrous PR. bcpoli
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