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Old growth and forestry jobs in steep decline | Columbia Valley, Cranbrook, East Kootenay, Elk Valley, Kimberley

Posted: March 6, 2021 By Eddie Petryshen Op-ed commentary The numbers are staggering; 500 square kilometres of old growth forests are logged every year in B.C. Many of these forests in places like the Coastal or Inland Temperate Rainforests are irreplaceable because they have taken hundreds, if not thousands of years to develop. Job numbers are equally staggering; 47,000 forestry jobs were lost between 2000 and 2019 in B.C. B.C.’s forest service lost a quarter of its workforce after allowing the industry to police itself under the Forest and Range Practices Act and the professional reliance model. Today, less than three percent of productive old growth forests exist. And most of those old forests are slated to be logged in the near future.

Op/Ed: Old growth, forestry jobs in steep decline

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