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"The provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them." That's not r
by debacle 4y ago
"The provincial government of British Columbia says old-growth forests are particularly important and that companies should put off logging them."
That's not really enough. BC should regulate these forests heavily.
Old growth forest is like nothing else on the Earth. There is organic material sometimes several feet thick. Trees with trunks like school buses stacked end-to-end.
Mankind will not survive a world where it is expected that corporations (especially megacorps) simply "do the right thing."
The UK company should not be on the hook here - they probably had no idea what the source of the wood was before this article, and, if the article is to be believed the timber was going to be cut anyway for the more valuable lumber species.
- joshuamoes 4y agoAs a northern British Columbia some of what you were saying makes sense. The provincial government has also just recently put in deferrals that very possibly could lead to about half of the mill shutting down. If old growth was as you to defined it, I think nobody would be chopping it down, but as it sits for forest to be considered old gross it only needs to have one tree per hectare over a certain size. in much of the area up here second growth from the early 20th century is even being considered old growth. The restrictions were primarily put in place for coastal old growth which is closer to your definition. From what I have seen, primary logging always goes to the Mills first since they are willing to pay more money.
- debacle 4y agoBeing across the continent from this, the only thing I'll say in response is that none of the photos in the OP look like old growth forest to me.