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According to a number of organizations, none of the 14 recommendations have been fulfilled, while old-growth trees continue to be logged.

According to a number of organizations, none of the 14 recommendations have been fulfilled, while old-growth trees continue to be logged.

The Joe Ross Creek watershed is about 100 square kilometres, embedded in the Deadman River watershed, and has undergone increasing clear-cut logging over the years.

Once grown, the trees are expected to remove more than 2.1 million tonnes of climate-polluting carbon dioxide from the air, according to the B.C. and federal governments.

Once grown, the trees are expected to remove more than 2.1 million tonnes of climate-polluting carbon dioxide from the air, according to the B.C. and federal governments.

Writer Lyndsie Bourgon seeks the roots of the Pacific Northwest’s tree-poaching crisis. An excerpt.

A report last April urged B.C. to act within six months to defer harvesting in old forest ecosystems at the highest risk of permanent biodiversity loss