B.C. lawmaker vows action on old-growth forests by early fall

By Carl Meyer
The National Observer
August 11, 2020
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

A British Columbia legislator says the province’s anticipated strategic review of old-growth forest management is coming by late summer or early fall, and will include “immediate actions.” Doug Routley, the BC NDP member for Nanaimo-North Cowichan, made the comments following an announcement by James Darling and Robert Fuller on Monday that they had ended their hunger strike on Vancouver Island, after becoming disillusioned with government action. The province’s Old Growth Strategic Review Panel said this spring it had submitted its recommendations. …The B.C. government has been under pressure from Extinction Rebellion activists, including Darling and Fuller, to move forward with those recommendations, after an independent scientific report this summer suggested provincial figures were misleading and that only about three per cent of forests with very large, old trees still remained.

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