Early in the pandemic, as protests at Fairy Creek were beginning to brew, B.C. made a bold promise [to] prioritize healthy ecosystems over harvesting trees. The province then offered up a round of stopgap measures, called old-growth deferrals, designed to tide forests over while it worked out a new forest management system. By fall 2021, B.C. was finally ready to launch a major plank of its new planning regime. Called forest landscape planning, the new system inserts a level of First Nations and B.C. government oversight where there was none, creating regional tables to inform how logging happens on the ground. It’s also the first provincewide land planning process crafted in the wake of B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. Former minister of forests, lands and natural resource operations Katrine Conroy called the approach “quite transformational” during a 2021 press conference unveiling the news. Does Conroy’s assessment hold up?