Ending old-growth logging on Vancouver Island would shut down four sawmills, a pulp mill and lead to thousands of jobs lost -- it would also eliminate much of the value-add wood product manufacturing
Last Thursday (June 6thj) the Sierra Club B.C. staged demonstrations at 17 MLA offices, repeating their call for an end to logging of old-growth forests. MLA offices were located in Victoria, Langford, Campbell River, Comox, Nanaimo, Sidney, Duncan, Parksville, Vancouver, North Vancouver, Surrey, Oliver, Prince George, Langley, Sechelt and Nelson. Here is the response from David Elstone RPF, executive director of the Truck Loggers Association: IMAGE: Forest Products Association of Canada For decades, and even more so over the past year, there have been many catastrophic headlines trumpeting rhetoric from environmentalists who state BC’s old-growth forests are endangered and warning that if we’re not careful, we’ll soon run out. Nothing could be further from the truth: 55 per cent of remaining old-growth forests, 500,000 hectares, are protected on Vancouver Island alone and will never be harvested ... EVER! There are also millions of hectare...