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B.C. government faces increasing opposition on plans to open forest reserves to loggers  –  Province’s discussions to help sawmills ravaged by pine beetles have been limited to just a few stakeholders, official says – By Gordon Hamilton  Apr 13, 2012 Vancouver Sun

The B.C. government is holding talks with the forest industry over ways to supply more timber to beetle-hit Interior sawmills, including the option of opening forest reserves that have until now been out of bounds to loggers. The discussions have been limited to a few stakeholders who have sawmills in regions where the mountain pine beetle has devastated the timber supply. But they are raising alarms — even from within the forest industry — that the province is acting unilaterally on issues with sweeping effects on the future of the forests and the communities that depend on them.

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