Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior: A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy, prepared by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, states that healthy trees are being felled as part of a drive to create “economic value from ‘dead’ beetle-attacked forests”.
This is leading to immediate problems with ensuring the survival of natural habitats and promoting biodiversity and long-term economic issues as live trees that will form the basis for future growth are being removed, according to the report.
“The result is that communities, workers and the environment alike are placed at unnecessary risk,” notes the report’s author Ben Parfitt. “For the sake of a more secure future, it is time to stop treating all beetle-attacked forests the same way.”
