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Taryn Skalbania
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Thank you David for another superb piece of analysis confirming that the rate of logging in most of the Interior is unsustainable.
Unsustainable overcutting is also affecting community watersheds. NDP forest policy on community watersheds continues to be aligned with Liberal forest policy — no difference.
Corporations and government’s BC Timber Sales are ruining community watersheds and damaging the quality of drinking water through government-subsidized, unsustainable, clearcut logging because they are protected by forest law that says if the fouled drinking water is treatable, then the logging is alright and the cost of water treatment devolves upon the residents of the community.
Try implementing a similar policy and law with the residents of Vancouver and Victoria, all of whom enjoy the very best drinking water and complete protection of their watersheds from logging, mining and other resource development. The urban residents would not allow that to happen. Unsurprisingly, rural residents feel the same way about their drinking water but the BC government doesn’t seem to care.
Take a look at the devastating logging that has taken place year-by-year from 1968 to 2020 in the Peachland watershed in the Okanagan; slide the grey button to the right:
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Touché Mr. Broadland…suicide as evidenced by the ghost towns dotting the island, interior and north of this province. To strive to be a ‘forestry dependant community’ under this regime of forest management is a fast track to economic suicide.
This is why basic forestry concepts should be explained by those who understand them and are not in the current employ of government and licensees- one does not have to understand basic forestry concepts to KNOW, ‘one doesn't need to be a forester, hydrologist or geomorphologist to grasp that unsustainable overcutting leads to flooding- it is intuitively obvious to the lay person or any independent party.’
And, are many policies and procedures in BC based on, as comments above say.... "assumptions about how forests should be managed" rather than real science, data, facts and research? or optimistic guess work like 'economic discounting'? No wonder, government and industry will not agree on a definition of sustainable or they wll be held to account- sustainable for who , for what and for how long?