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It's 2025, not 1975, why are we still logging our irreplaceable old growth forests?

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Van Creek, Bull River, East of Cranbrook, January 18th.

There appears to be no mention of enacting a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health law which is under the per-view of the Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship.

The provinces commitment to protecting 30 of BC's lands and waters by 2030 only appears to be mentioned in one instance in Minister Neill's mandate letters. It's mentioned in the context of developing mining and mineral exploration in the Northwest 🫣

45,000,000 cm3 of logging equates to about 1.3 million logging truck loads.

This is an ⬆️harvest goal at a time when we are in the guts and feathers. Companies across the province logged less than 40,000,000 cm3 annually over the last two years (less than 30 million in 2023, around 38 mill in 2022)

In Minister Parmar's (Minister of Forests) mandate letter there appears to be only one mention of protecting old growth. No clear mention of fully implementing the Old Growth Strategic Review. It's been 4 and a half years since the B.C. NDP committed to implementing the OGSR and limited progress.

Today, Premier Eby released his governments' mandate letters to Ministers. What's telling is a focus on business as usual with little mention of past commitments to shift paradigms in resource use and land management.

A short 🧵

In defence of dead trees.

The old analogy is that dead trees (snags or large fallen trees) have more living cells in them than live trees.

This is due to the fact that many species depend on/specialize on dead or decaying trees. Natural forests have higher levels of large fallen trees and snags