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\u2018Monumental Steps\u2019 on Protecting Old Growth Says Horgan. Critics Aren\u2019t Convinced<\/a><\/h3>\n

BC defers logging of southern Vancouver Island old growth after months of protests and blockades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Premier John Horgan announced a pause in old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island Wednesday.\u00a0Photo: BC government.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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The British Columbia cabinet has agreed to defer the logging of 2,000 hectares of old-growth forest in the Fairy Creek watershed and the Central Walbran Valley, Premier John Horgan announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The two-year deferrals fulfil a\u00a0request<\/a>\u00a0made by the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht and Huu-ay-aht First Nations, but are unlikely to satisfy people who have been blocking logging activity in the area between Port Renfrew and Lake Cowichan on southern Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are monumental steps,\u201d Horgan said. \u201cI know it appears at the moment to be just another announcement by another premier, but these announcements are transformative for an industry that has been foundational to British Columbia\u2019s success and will be foundational to our future success, but it has to be done in a different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deferral areas shown on\u00a0maps<\/a>\u00a0the government released include 884 hectares of old-growth forest in the Fairy Creek watershed and 1,150 hectares in the Walbran. Logging is also deferred in a few hundred hectares of second-growth forests in the two areas.<\/p>\n

The deferrals include a stop to new road building in some areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe welcome the decision by the Government of British Columbia to approve the request made by our three Nations to defer old-growth harvesting in the Central Walbran and Fairy Creek watersheds for a period of two years,\u201d said a statement from the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht and Huu-ay-aht First Nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will work with the Government of British Columbia and the licensees to monitor all forestry activity outside of the deferral areas to ensure that continuing forest activity does not impact the old-growth timber within the Central Walbran and Fairy Creek protected areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018Monumental Steps\u2019 on Protecting Old Growth Says Horgan. Critics Aren\u2019t Convinced BC defers logging of southern Vancouver Island old growth after months of protests and blockades. Premier John Horgan announced a pause in old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island Wednesday.\u00a0Photo: BC government. The British Columbia cabinet has agreed to defer the logging of 2,000 hectares […]<\/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":[4,6],"tags":[11645,94,103,31324,26276,23884],"class_list":["post-58221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-andrew-macleod","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-forestry-industry","tag-old-growth-forests","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58221","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=58221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58222,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58221\/revisions\/58222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}