A new way of viewing the woods

While B.C. considers relaxing logging policies, the industry is becoming more eco-conscious

When John Innes, dean of the faculty of forestry at the University of B.C., talks about a sustainable forestry sector, he is both encouraged and concerned about what he sees unfolding in the province’s forests, educational institutions and mills. First, he said in a phone interview from a London forestry conference, he is encouraged by the attitudes of the students now enrolled in faculty programs and by the innovative changes taking place within much of the industry itself.

By Gordon Hamilton Vancouver Sun Jul 12, 2012

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