{"id":57878,"date":"2021-05-16T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T11:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57878"},"modified":"2021-05-16T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T11:19:31","slug":"a-garage-sale-for-the-last-old-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57878","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

As BC\u2019s watchdog slams the province\u2019s own logging agency for wrecking ecosystems, advocates demand action. A special report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Brenda Sayers on the stump of one of BC\u2019s once-largest Douglas firs, felled as part of a BC Timber Sales-auctioned clearcut. The tree was three metres in diameter and stood 66 metres tall.\u00a0Photo by TJ Watt.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Two summers ago, Brenda Sayers knelt atop what was left of British Columbia\u2019s likely\u00a0ninth widest<\/a> Douglas fir tree. Sayers, a member of the Hupa\u010dasath First Nation, has long fought to protect old growth in her territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe old growth holds a lot of our history,\u201d she said. \u201cThat tree must have been 800 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

It had been felled in the Nahmint Valley by companies given the go-ahead by BC Timber Sales, the province\u2019s own logging agency, and the largest tenure holder in the province.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, B.C.\u2019s forestry watchdog\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that BC Timber Sales erred when it allowed that tree and the forests surrounding it to be clearcut.<\/p>\n

Three years after it was launched, the investigation found that the province wrongly greenlit a plan from BC Timber Sales that failed to protect land-use objectives for biodiversity and old growth protection in the Nahmint River Watershed as set out by the Vancouver Island Land Use Plan.<\/p>\n

According to the BC Forest Practices Board report, \u201cgaps\u201d in BC Timber Sales\u2019 planning \u201coccurred over a long period of time and are creating real risks to ecosystems.\u201d It also found that although BC Timber Sales knew about those gaps, it didn\u2019t adequately address them.<\/p>\n

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\u2018A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth\u2019 As BC\u2019s watchdog slams the province\u2019s own logging agency for wrecking ecosystems, advocates demand action. A special report. Brenda Sayers on the stump of one of BC\u2019s once-largest Douglas firs, felled as part of a BC Timber Sales-auctioned clearcut. The tree was three metres in diameter 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":[94,1057,1595,26276,5499,31072],"class_list":["post-57878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-ecosystems","tag-logging","tag-old-growth-forests","tag-the-tyee","tag-zoe-yunker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57878","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=57878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57879,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57878\/revisions\/57879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}