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Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds<\/a><\/h3>\n

Ken Lertzman’s paper shows between 1860 and 2016, 87 per cent of logging took place in old-growth forests<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A man walks past an old growth tree in Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, B.C. A new paper published by Simon Fraser University professor Ken Lertzman shows that decades of logging on the province’s Central Coast targeted the highest-value forests first. (Jonathan Hayward\/The Canadian Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The worsening effects of climate change are compounding the historical loss of British Columbia’s old-growth forests, says the co-author of a new paper that shows decades of logging on the province’s Central Coast targeted the highest-value forests first.<\/p>\n

“History tells us that we have really depleted these high-value elements of the landscape and that we can’t keep going,”\u00a0said Ken Lertzman, professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University’s school of resource and environmental management.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, [forests]\u00a0have never been under greater threat from natural disturbances that are driven by a changing climate.”<\/p>\n

Some forests have been set aside for logging because of their ecological and cultural value, only to be scorched by increasingly severe wildfires, he added.<\/p>\n

That’s the reality today’s policy-making must reflect when it comes to determining how B.C.’s forests will be valued and used in years to come, Lertzman said.<\/p>\n

Vital old growth first to be cut<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paper<\/a>\u00a0published Monday in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined more than 150 years of logging across 8,550 square kilometres of forests around Bella Bella on B.C.’s Central Coast.<\/p>\n

Of nearly 570 square kilometres logged in the area between 1860 and 2016, 87 per cent of that logging took place in old-growth forests starting in 1970, it shows.<\/p>\n

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