{"id":57114,"date":"2021-03-15T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57114"},"modified":"2021-03-15T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:40:20","slug":"bc-promised-to-protect-old-growth-how-is-it-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57114","title":{"rendered":"BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing?<\/a><\/h3>\n

Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu\u2019\u0142 First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island.\u00a0Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Six months after releasing a major report on managing and protecting old-growth forests, British Columbia is either at a turning point, a standstill or both, depending who you ask.<\/p>\n

Katrine Conroy, the minister responsible, says change is underway but takes time. Environmentalists give the progress so far a failing grade.<\/p>\n

One of the report\u2019s authors, Garry Merkel, captures the uncertainty when asked if there has been noticeable change. \u201c\u2018Yes\u2019 is the short answer, but \u2018no,\u2019 depending how you look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Merkel is a professional forester with 45 years of experience and a Tahltan Nation member. He and Al Gorley, a professional forester whose similarly wide experience includes a stint as chair of the B.C. Forest Practices Board,\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0A New Future For Old Forests: A Strategic Review of How British Columbia Manages for Old Forests Within its Ancient Ecosystems<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the report<\/a> they made 14 recommendations that would totally overhaul the management of old-growth forests, starting with grounding the system in a government-to-government framework involving both the provincial and Indigenous governments.<\/p>\n

Their second recommendation was to \u201cprioritize ecosystem health and resilience\u201d so that the health of forests comes first. It would mean a shift from seeing forests primarily through a financial lens where ecosystem health is viewed as a \u201cconstraint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building on that base, other recommendations included protecting more old forests, improving the information available to the public about forest conditions and trends, and planning for an orderly transition of the industry away from a reliance on old growth.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n

Andrew MacLeod<\/a>, TheTyee.ca, british columbia, government, old growth forests, logging,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing? Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes. Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu\u2019\u0142 First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island.\u00a0Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. Six months after releasing a major report on managing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11645,94,379,1595,26276,23884],"class_list":["post-57114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andrew-macleod","tag-british-columbia","tag-government","tag-logging","tag-old-growth-forests","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57115,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57114\/revisions\/57115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}