In the summer of 2021, the fight over old-growth forests reached a fever pitch. …The B.C. government was scrambling to …respond to the public uproar.  …By 2019, the NDP government launched its old-growth strategic review resulting in a report entitled A New Future for Old Forests, released four months later. …Premier John Horgan called a snap election 10 days after the report’s release and campaigned hard on old-growth, promising to implement all the report’s recommendations… Horgan announced in June 2021 that a second panel was needed. This one consisted of technical experts who would determine which ancient forests should be set aside. …The Horgan government has made some nice promises about the importance of ancient ecosystems. Because of the lack of immediate interim protection to ensure the best patches of old-growth don’t continue to fall and the absence of meaningful funding to make these protections possible, the B.C. government is still failing on that score.