The Save What’s Left Conservation Society has rejected recommendations in the B.C. government’s B.C. Timber Sales (BCTS) task force report, describing the proposal for privatization and “fire-sale forestry” as “more logging, less accountability.” …“Far from charting a sustainable future, the recommendations double down on an industrial forestry model that is failing communities, taxpayers and ecosystems,” said Joe Karthein, spokesperson for the Kootenay-based Save What’s Left Conservation Society (SWLCS). According to Karthein, the first recommendation in the report to “Develop a model for BCTS to operate at arm’s length from government” would result in higher costs, less accountability and an even greater emphasis on revenue generation over the public interest in sustainable land stewardship. …As an alternative, SWLCS is calling on the premier and minister of Forests to halt old-growth logging in BCTS-managed lands, end the failed auction system, legislate a true public-interest mandate, and redirect subsidies toward restoration and watershed security