. In January, he sought submissions from stakeholders in response to a government discussion paper on improving the province’s forestry regime. The responses were due last summer, which is when he appointed an old-growth strategic review panel to carry out more consultations.
In the meantime, the province continues to approve logging of old growth at roughly the same rate as the former Liberal government. Last week, the provincein a section of Vancouver Island’s old-growth forests that environmentalists view as dangerously rare. : 13.2 million hectares, provincewide. According to the ministry of forests, the forest industry cuts just more than 200,000 hectares forest land every year, and of that, 27 per cent comes from old growth.But a series of soccer-pitch-sized stands of trees does not an intact ecosystem make. A policy for old growth will need to determine just what scale of protection is needed as B.C. prepares for a changing climate.
Mr. Donaldson has to walk a line between conservation values and the demands that he maintain forestry jobs in a sector that is struggling. U.S. trade wars are part of the challenge, but climate change has also dealt a heavy blow to the sector, from the ravages of the mountain pine beetle that thrived in mild winters, to the unprecedented wildfires that swept across a parched landscape in recent years.
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