B.C Provincial Government to Discuss Next Steps on Old-Growth Logging with Release of Advisory Panel Findings

The Canadian press is reporting (11-2-21) that the British Columbia Provincial Government was expected to discuss today the next steps it will take on old-growth logging in the province. Forests Minister Katrine Conroy was scheduled to release the findings of an independent advisory panel established in June to help the province identify at-risk old-growth ecosystems and prioritize them for deferral from logging.

The five-member panel was expected to develop maps and analyze all areas of old-growth trees in the province.

Earlier this year, the government approved a request from three Vancouver Island First Nations to defer old-growth logging across about 2,000 hectares of land. At the time, Conroy said the province was in negotiations with Indigenous rights and title holders over the management of old-growth trees and additional logging deferrals were expected.