BC’s NDP government has recently lent a steadying hand to its beleaguered forestry sector, pausing stumpage fees, expediting permits and investing in mills to prevent its looming fall — but some say to no avail. “Why does it keep getting worse?” Prince George-Mackenzie Conservative MLA Kiel Giddens asked during the spring legislative session. …A new report commissioned by the Sierra Club BC points to a theory: BC’s supply of unlogged, high-value trees that industry has long relied on is dwindling, rendering short-term fixes and freebies inadequate. …Pressure on BC’s most at-risk forests appears to be intensifying. The report says the province’s efforts to temporarily pause logging in rare forests through old-growth deferrals have failed. Instead, BC forests were four times more likely to be logged inside recommended deferral zones than outside over the past four years. …The report suggests BC’s century-long feast on big, old trees is approaching its end.