Liberals, NDP agree that counting trees tops to-do list

By Gordon Hamilton  – But all parties differ on how to manage forests in the post-mountain pine beetle era

Vancouver Sun

After almost a decade in the doldrums, the forest industry is steaming back into the B.C. economy, with companies clamouring for more wood from forests that have been devastated by the mountain pine beetle. Two forces — one economic, the other environmental — define the issues facing British Columbia’s forests: The beetle destroyed so much timber that the province stopped trying to keep an inventory of what’s left until the epidemic died down; and now that the industry is recovering…

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