Battling the Beetle
Taking Action to Restore British Columbia's Interior Forests
Description:... The CCPA would like to thank the following organizations for their financial contributions to this work: The BC Federation of Labour, The BC Government and Service Employees' Union, The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, The Endswell Foundation, The Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada and The United Steelworkers of America District 3. Cover beetle image courtesy of The Canadian Fores [...] While a significant portion of the trees attacked will be profitably logged, an even greater portion will not, leading to a looming gap in available timber that will result in the loss of one quarter of existing income in many Interior communities.1 Given the severity of the outbreak and its implications for the wellbeing of forests and communities, the BC government's action plan speaks comparati [...] The area includes 30-plus communities ranging from 100 Mile House in the southern portion of the Cariboo Forest Region through Prince George and west to Smithers in the Prince Rupert Forest Region.20 The full extent of the beetle What the authors of that report could not have known was that in the attack remains poorly ensuing three years the very definition of "susceptible" has changed along quan [...] Two central questions before British Columbians are whether the province is responding adequately to the challenges posed by the beetles, in particular in the area of reforestation, and whether we are getting a fair return from logging companies in the midst of an unprecedented, government-mandated, logging increase in response to the beetles. [...] It also heavily influenced the thinking of government-appointed bodies such as the Forest Resources Commission, By the Ministry of Forests which made many recommendations to the province in 1991 on the need own estimate, we are on the for permanent and secured investment pools for reforestation efforts.
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