Info about BC Forestry Legislation & Communities Affected

April 1 - First Phase of changes to the Forest & Range Practice Act can be found here: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019FLNR0053-000541

Timelapse of logging in Peachland.

REPORT: Forest Practices Board, Special Report: Opportunities to Change the Forest and Range Practices Act https://www.bcfpb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/SR55-Forest-and-Range-Practices-Act.pdf

BC Coalition for Forestry Reform, Submission to the BC Government’s Review of Professional Reliance in Resource Industries

Article “223 International Scientists Call for urgent action to protect British Columbia’s endangered temperate rainforests“

Article: “We Need More Boots on the Ground to Protect our Forests“, by Anthony Britneff

Article: Grand Forks residents prep for winter in sheds, RVs after catastrophic flooding, by Judith Lavoie

Article: ‘We have been ill-prepared’: B.C. offers flooded Grand Forks businesses disaster relief six months in by Judith Lavoie

Video: Presentation by Professional Foresters, Herb Hammond and Fred Marshall, on the problems in the Kettle River Watershed and the connection to forestry practices.

Article: Forest group readies ambitious new standards for sustainable industry, The push for new caribou standards come as calls to protect threatened herds grow louder

REPORT: Restoring Forestry in BC, The story of the industry’s decline and the case for regional management. By Bob Williams.

Article: Logging B.C.’s ancient forests adds to extinctions, Jens Wieting and Torrance Coste:

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