@eddiepetryshen.bsky.social
Conservationist, human and coffee powered adventurer. Fighting for the land, water and critters. Huge nerd, but you already knew that...
BC's own data suggests that over 90 percent of logging in BC is still clearcut and clearcut with reserves.
#bcForests
wildsight.ca/2025/02/19/o...
"While itβs true thereβs too much red tape in forestry, itβs the kind being used to lay out more road lines and cut block boundaries that we should be worried about."
I wrote about the state of BC's forests and the possible futures before us.
vancouversun.com/news/protect...
Eddie Petryshen, a conservation specialist with Wildsight based in B.C.βs East Kootenay region, says successive federal governments and environment ministers have βkicked the can further down the road,β and that trend continues today".
Always dreamy when the sun shines in the Southern Rockies
22.01.2025 01:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A bit transitional. But upper elevation ICH with pockets more dominated by spruce/subalpine fir. They left some of the large cedar but a forest they shouldn't have been in in the first place. Less than 10 percent old remaining in this BEC unit
20.01.2025 21:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's 2025, not 1975, why are we still logging our irreplaceable old growth forests?
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Van Creek, Bull River, East of Cranbrook, January 18th.
times of emergency are often times of opportunity for certain industries. BC is entering a period of extreme uncertainty as Trump threatens tariffs and a trade war. It's clear that certain industries and lobbyists are seeing this as an opportunity to continue business as usual and consolidate power.
16.01.2025 20:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There appears to be no mention of enacting a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health law which is under the per-view of the Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship.
16.01.2025 20:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The provinces commitment to protecting 30 of BC's lands and waters by 2030 only appears to be mentioned in one instance in Minister Neill's mandate letters. It's mentioned in the context of developing mining and mineral exploration in the Northwest π«£
16.01.2025 20:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1
45,000,000 cm3 of logging equates to about 1.3 million logging truck loads.
This is an β¬οΈharvest goal at a time when we are in the guts and feathers. Companies across the province logged less than 40,000,000 cm3 annually over the last two years (less than 30 million in 2023, around 38 mill in 2022)
Also important to note that their protecting old growth commitment is written as a secondary goal to providing land base and economic certainty that enables industrial scale logging
16.01.2025 20:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
In Minister Parmar's (Minister of Forests) mandate letter there appears to be only one mention of protecting old growth. No clear mention of fully implementing the Old Growth Strategic Review. It's been 4 and a half years since the B.C. NDP committed to implementing the OGSR and limited progress.
16.01.2025 19:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Today, Premier Eby released his governments' mandate letters to Ministers. What's telling is a focus on business as usual with little mention of past commitments to shift paradigms in resource use and land management.
A short π§΅
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"We canβt do everything on the same piece of land. You canβt maximize two-by-four production and have owls. You canβt maximize fibre and expect to have functional food webs.β
In defence of dead trees.
The old analogy is that dead trees (snags or large fallen trees) have more living cells in them than live trees.
This is due to the fact that many species depend on/specialize on dead or decaying trees. Natural forests have higher levels of large fallen trees and snags
