In 2019, a strategic review was done by two professional foresters to determine how British Columbia might better manage old-growth forests. …While these steps are better than nothing, the current government continues to point to its predecessors, blaming previous regimes for failing to implement protective policies, and implying it will do better. …On June 1, Premier John Horgan and Forestry Minister Katrine Conroy made a public announcement revealing how the province plans to modernize forest policy informed by a newly released intention paper. …This announcement, and the paper that triggered it, are more of the same from a government that has spent nearly five years reinforcing its hallmark approach to forest management in B.C.: the so-called “talk and log.” …There is no more time to talk as B.C.’s last ancient forests are felled, and critical fish and wildlife habitat continues to be degraded or lost; old-growth logging must end now.