BC's own data suggests that over 90 percent of logging in BC is still clearcut and clearcut with reserves. #bcForests

wildsight.ca/2025/02/19/o... "While it’s true there’s too much red tape in forestry, it’s the kind being used to lay out more road lines and cut block boundaries that we should be worried about." I wrote about the state of BC's forests and the possible futures before us.

vancouversun.com/news/protect... Eddie Petryshen, a conservation specialist with Wildsight based in B.C.’s East Kootenay region, says successive federal governments and environment ministers have “kicked the can further down the road,” and that trend continues today".

Always dreamy when the sun shines in the Southern Rockies

It's 2025, not 1975, why are we still logging our irreplaceable old growth forests? @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social @raviparmar.bsky.social Van Creek, Bull River, East of Cranbrook, January 18th.

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 🧵

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... "We can’t do everything on the same piece of land. You can’t maximize two-by-four production and have owls. You can’t maximize fibre and expect to have functional food webs.”

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