To the editor,
Re: Old-growth motion doesn’t reflect realities in the sector, Letters, April 7.
Destroying the very little remaining old-growth will provide very few jobs for a very short period of time. And then, when it is gone, it is gone. Big-tree old-growth forest cannot survive as an ecology with small, disconnected stands. And it cannot be ‘managed.’
I disagree completely with the letter writer’s stance. There is absolutely no logical reason why there cannot be huge working forests plus real forest that is just left alone.
A tree farm is not a forest.
Michael Linehan, Sooke
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: B.C. hasn’t managed forests properly
To the editor,
Re: Old-growth motion doesn’t reflect realities in the sector, Letters, April 7.
First, kudos to council for opposing old-growth logging.
The letter writer did not explain any aspects or considerations related to B.C.’s working forest (or its actual definition) or perspectives on the old-growth harvesting issue.
Youbou mill is gone; didn’t all other Island mills re-tool to handle the smaller second-growth logs decades ago? I’ve known for decades that these old-growth logs are trucked to export markets raw, no value added here. I was under the impression that since the creation of Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park, there was a moratorium for all old-growth in that area; guess not.
So will our premier save that biodiverse area or go for the votes that keep him in power?
Neil Saunders, Nanaimo
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Government’s inaction has led to old-fashioned ‘war in the woods’
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