Government and Industry: Talk and Log
BC betrays its own promises to protect old-growth forests
Tobyn Neame
Hazel Volk
Hazel Volk
Zannia Kidd and pawa haiyupis
pawa haiyupis and Zannia Kidd
Forest Falldown
April | May 2026
BC's timber barons could have found ways to make the industry sustainable, but instead they logged centuries of forests in a few decades. From endless "talk-and-log," to the public cost of watershed collapse, to the urgent need for a new Forest Act, these stories paint a picture of BC’s forest industry undergoing catastrophic contraction.