Frustrations are growing monthly with the BC government’s continuing lack of action on the provincial forestry file. The issues are numerous, growing and urgent. The focus for several of them surround basic subjects like wood fibre availability, the high costs of operating and forest land use planning and priorities. But the government’s head-in-the-sand lack of response is unlikely to change any time soon. …Meanwhile, B.C.s forestry dilemma deepens. Sawmill and wood processing plants continue along the all too familiar path of production curtailments and permanent closure. …“Access to economic fibre has fallen from 60 million cubic metres in 2018 to 35 million cubic metres of actual fibre in 2023, about 42% below the allowable annual cut for the year,” Linda Coady reminded the government. …This in a sector struggling to regain its stature in an increasingly competitive global environment. B.C. is one of if not the highest cost lumber producer in North America.