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Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes. Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee's Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at . SHARES Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu’ł First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. Six months after releasing a major report on managing and protecting old-growth forests, British Columbia is either at a turning point, a standst...

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

VANCOUVER - The most at-risk ecosystems should be set aside from logging while British Columbia shif...

Brenna Owen Moss covered branches are seen in the Avatar Old Growth Forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island, B.C. Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward March 12, 2021 - 12:13 PM VANCOUVER - The most at-risk ecosystems should be set aside from logging while British Columbia shifts its forestry policies toward a more sustainable system,says a forester who helped write a provincial report on old-growth forests. The report last April co-written by Garry Merkel urged B.C. to act within six months to defer harvesting in old forest ecosystems ...

"There (are) some of those ecosystems targeted for harvesting right now," he said in an interview this week, six months after B.C. released the report and pledged to implement the recommendations from the panel of two independent foresters who were commissioned to write it. "I do share the impatience of a lot of folks." At the same time, Merkel said he doesn’t question the government’s commitment to implementing the panel’s recommendations and the process overall will take years. "This is very much in my mind an intergenerational process that we're working through." Old-growth forests ...