Fall Down: Forest Policy in British Columbia

Published by: David Suzuki Foundation and partners
Authored by: Patricia Marchak, Scott L. Aycock, Deborah M. Herbert
Partners: Ecotrust Canada

Biodiversity, Environmental rights British Columbia, forests, land use, economics, conservation, policy and regulation, community and culture, industry

In this report, Patricia Marchak demonstrates that current forestry management is not only destroying the timber base, on which a healthy forest industry depends, but is contributing to a host of other problems. Forest companies are losing money, workers in the industry are being laid off, and forest-dependent communities are in a state of economic crisis. Without a new commitment to conservation, these problems will continue. (Executive summary only)