Biodiversity in Prince George timber supply area at risk: Forest Practices Board SHARE ON: Logs (Kaboompics, Pexels.com) An investigation of a complaint about the management of biodiversity in the Prince George Timber Supply Area (PG TSA) has found that biodiversity, as it relates to old-growth forests, may be at risk in the TSA. While forest licensees are complying with legal requirements for biodiversity protection in the PG TSA, the investigation identified several concerns with how government and licensees are managing old forests. “One of the key issues is that the legal requirements have not been reviewed or updated to reflect the impacts of the mountain pine beetle, updated science or society’s changing values,” said Kevin Kriese, chair of the Forest Practices Board, “The PG TSA is also one of the few areas in the province where the amount of old forest legally required to be conserved is not specifically identified on maps but is measured as a percentage of the overall forest inventory. This creates risks to other forest values.”