B.C. warned not to touch reserves for short-term supply

By Gordon Hamilton – Province pitches extension of plan to open logging in areas previously off limits –  When a special committee of the provincial legislature came to the Interior town of Valemount last week seeking views on how to maintain timber harvests in forests decimated by the pine beetle, it reopened some old wounds for Valemount Mayor Andru McCracken. … And he is concerned that the province may end up taking even more timber from the Robson Valley to feed beetleaffected mills to the West. …The Association of B.C. Professional Foresters, environmentalists and even the forest industry and the University of B.C. dean of forestry have expressed concerns, specifically over the second look at forest lands that are set aside for ecological reasons. Jun 26, 2012 Vancouver Sun

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