BC’s provincial crown timber harvest data for the complete-year 2025 shows the harvest slipped by 2% to 32 million cubic metres (excluding waste). It’s a result that disappoints when stacked up against the Premier’s… target of 45 million m3. …Despite mill closures, wildfires and the fallout of the mountain pine beetle epidemic amongst several other issues influencing harvesting, the interior harvest actually increased by 2% in 2025. Where the current angst comes from is the coastal forest sector with a million cubic metre reduction, a decrease of 13% to 6.8 million m3 (excluding waste). …And before someone blames log exports, they were down 12% (ytd through October) to one of its lowest levels in over a decade. …As a bit of a plot twist, the overall BCTS harvest from sold timber sale licences increased in 2025, up 16%, with the BCTS coastal harvest jumping by 27%. That is a good result, but with the overall harvest having decreased, it means the non-BCTS licensees took the full brunt of harvest reduction on the coast with weak markets along with duties and tariffs as contributing factors.