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A Realistic Look at BC Forestry

February 10, 2021 | A Realistic Look at BC Forestry Stewart Muir Stewart Muir is founder and executive director of the Resource Works Society, a Vancouver-based group open to participation by British Columbians from all walks of life who are concerned about their future economic opportunities. He is an author, journalist and historian with experience on three continents including a financial editor of The Vancouver Sun responsible for mining and markets coverage. Since Resource Works was established in 2014, the group has gained international recognition for its practical approach to the public challenges of responsible natural resource development and use. BC needs a working forest, not activist misinformation. Carl Sweet, a founding director of the BC Forestry Alliance, shares his perspective.

Comment: We must improve how B C forests are managed

Since 1988, the forest industry has contracted radically. The pulp mills that once stood in Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Ocean Falls, Port Alice, Campbell River, Gold River, Tahsis and Woodfibre are long since gone. Since 2000, more than 80 sawmills provincewide have been shuttered. Mining, not forest products, is now B.C.’s largest export sector. Rural British Columbians have dealt with, and adapted to, massive job losses in the forest sector over the last three decades. Since 2000, more than 45,000 jobs have been lost. The industry’s once-proud claim that forestry paid for healthcare and education is now illusory. Government revenue reporting shows that forestry does not pay its own bills never mind underpinning social service expenditures. Forestry is now a mere three per cent of provincial gross domestic product.

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