Logging deferred in a million hectares of at-risk old-growth forests between November and April, province says Brenna Owen · The Canadian Press · Posted: May 29, 2022 3:50 PM PDT | Last Updated ...

In Revelstoke, logging is big business, despite the potential threat to wildlife and old-growth forests. The city owns and manages 1,200 square kilometres of forest under the RCFC.

The guidance memo also tells logging companies they can build roads through old-growth areas identified for deferral if there is no alternative route available that is “practical and reasonably ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change, with exceptions that include ...

A Kermode bear, better know as the Spirit Bear is seen fishing in the Riordan River on Gribbell Island in the Great Bear Rainforest, B.C. on Sept, 18, 2013. The worsening effects of climate change are ...

Since the Old Growth Strategic Review was released, the ministry spokesperson said 0.23 per cent of old-growth forests the technical advisory panel identified as priority and at-risk have been ...

According to the Ancient Forest Alliance, mapping based on B.C. government data from 2012 indicates that about 74 percent of the original, productive old-growth forests on B.C.’s southern coast ...

British Columbia-based forestry giant Interfor reaped an estimated $1.8 million in net profit from logging in old-growth areas that were meant to be preserved, a decision by the province's Forest ...

The soaring forests in Temagami are home to more than half the world’s old-growth red and white pines. Plans to log about 100 hectares have been approved by Ontario’s Ministry of Natural ...

Forest companies say a government decision to defer logging in some old-growth forests will cause massive job losses. Conservationists say long-term over-cutting is the real problem.

Biden administration old-growth forest proposal doesn’t ban logging, but still angers industry By: Matthew Brown, The Associated Press Posted: 1:13 PM CDT Thursday, Jun. 20, 2024 Last Modified ...

Petryshen said the B.C. government’s move to defer old-growth logging was a first step in taking responsibility for the state of many B.C. forests, and a commitment to consult First Nations ...