Why Are People Stealing BC Trees?
It’s complicated, says Lyndsie Bourgon. An interview.
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Who is stealing trees from the forest? Problem has economic roots, environmental impact, says author
Lyndsie Bourgon explores tree poaching, and the social and economic factors driving it, in her new book Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods.
Source: cbc.ca
Lyndsie Bourgon's Tree Thieves examines tree poaching and forest conservation history in North America
To someone brought up on the dry, flat, windblown prairies of Southern Alberta, the damp and fecund old-growth forests of British Columbia symbolize a mythical, misty past. So, in 2012, when Albertan Lyndsie Bourgon first heard of the illegal felling of an 800-year-old red cedar in Ditidaht territory on Vancouver Island, she says, “It really
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