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Secret Map Shows BC Playing a Shell Game with Old Growth (The Tyee)


Environmental leaders and a former high-ranking civil servant call it a betrayal in the making.

For months, officials in the Ministry of Forests have been working on a map that significantly departs from the recommendations of a panel appointed by the provincial government to advise it on how to protect British Columbia’s imperilled old-growth forests.

The map suggests that behind the scenes, bureaucrats in the ministry are undoing the work of the panel and freeing up as much old-growth forest as possible to be cut down . . . .

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