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British Columbia's public dispute on Forests

There is some dispute ongoing in British Columbia regarding the treatment of forests and first nation people rights

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February 17, 2012

B.C.'s efforts not enough to halt forestry declines

B.C. auditor general John Doyle said in a report released Thursday that the province is ill-prepared to manage the province's beetle-ravaged forests, which are heading toward a long-term decline in both value and diversity.

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February 17th, 2012

British Columbia’s Auditor General releases his timber management report

British Columbia Auditor General John Doyle has released his latest report, An Audit of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Management of Timber.

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February 2, 2012

Forests? Depends on who's counting

B.C.'s foresters are an argumentative lot, and for the past few years, one particular disagreement has repeatedly seized their attention.

It's the question of how much forest land falls into the official category known as NSR - not satisfactorily restocked.

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3 Feb 2012

Proof Is in: Our Forests Are Badly Mismanaged

On the second of February, I attended a presentation at the Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association AGM in Kamloops.

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February 3, 2012

FOREST PRACTICES BOARD CONFIRMS BELL UNDERSTATED FOREST PROBLEMS

The Forest Practices Board has confirmed that former forest minister Pat Bell has been grossly understating the true problems facing B.C.’s forests.

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December 7, 2011

Pine beetle plague is being exploited to cut healthy trees

Ask who caused this plague destroying our province's biodiversity.

Those who go to our backcountry are familiar with our huge clearcuts and the damage done.

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December 7, 2011

Pine beetle plague is being exploited to cut healthy trees

I wish to commend The Sun and Larry Pynn for the excellent series of articles "In the Wake of a Plague." This sober second look at the issues and myths surrounding the mountain pine beetle panic is long overdue.

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December 7, 2011

Forestry's 'perfect storm'

The Chilcotin's beetle-killed lodge-pole pine forests are saturated with water. The harvesting crews have been sent home. And logging trucks known as Super-B Trains, hauling 300 to 400 logs apiece, are inching their way through deep mud wallows.

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December 7, 2011

'It looks like Armageddon': The destruction of B.C. pine forests

VANCOUVER - Debbie Atha had a dream that went like this: Gregarious woman approaching 30 quits her well-paying pharmaceutical sales job in England to move to the B.C. Interior to invest her time and money building a dude ranch.

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December 7, 2011

Pine beetles part 3: A flood of problems for ranchers

Watching the pine beetles kill off the Chilcotin's vast stands of lodgepole pine forest was bad enough for cattle rancher Randy Saugstad.

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by Dr. Radut