B.C. is ill-prepared to manage B.C’s beetle-ravaged forests as they slide into a long-term decline in both value and diversity, Auditor-General John Doyle said in a report released Thursday.
“We are already facing the fact that the value of the forest is going to be diminished as we go forward, and future generations are not going to have what we had,” Doyle said in an interview. Reforestation is not keeping up with the growing inventory of land in need of restocking, he said. The report, which focuses on Interior forests, notes the provincial Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is responsible for 22 million hectares of forestland with an estimated value of a quarter trillion dollars but it has no clear objectives on how to manage it. By Gordon Hamilton Feb 17, 2012 Vancouver Sun
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