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The worsening effects of climate change are compounding the historical loss of British Columbias old-growth forests, says the co-author of a new paper that shows decades of logging on the provinces central coast targeted the highest-value forests first.

Experts say government must act now to avoid preventable landslide and flood deaths and damage. The problems go beyond climate change.

Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada In the 2017 and 2018, 2.55 million hectares burned across British Columbia, Canada, including unanticipated large and high-severity fires in many dry forests. To transform forest and fire management to achieve resilience to future megafires requires improved understanding historical fire frequency, severity, and spatial patterns. Our dendroecological reconstructions of 35 p...

Restrictions on transporting and milling wood contaminated with the mountain pine beetle have been relaxed this summer in an effort to catch up with an infestation that has a 428,000 hectare head start. Guidelines for summer hauling and milling were released last week by the forests ministry’s entomologist, Robert Hodgkinson, giving licensees a longer window for hauling and processing the infected wood by removing a six to seven-week shutdown that normally occurred during the beetle’s fli...