The inventory of loss in British Columbia’s forests is long and includes accelerating declines in stored carbon, salmon populations and irreplaceable ecosystems like the inland temperate rainforest. The B.C. government … has launched a process to, “prioritize ecosystem health and biodiversity.” …But it won’t happen unless the government confronts the central reason we are in this mess: decades of primary forest logging … all overseen by professional foresters. Professional forestry in B.C. is and always has been about timber exploitation, and it will not deliver the new relationship with forests that the government’s proposed framework calls for unless we confront that reality and the mindset that enabled it. …That nature can and should be “managed” is a deeply held belief in professional forestry. …The disgrace of professional forestry is … that it purports to be responsible in its dealings with other forms of life. In short, the beliefs and practices of professional forestry are antithetical to ecosystem health and biodiversity.