Government and Industry: Talk and Log

BC betrays its own promises to protect old-growth forests

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Tobyn Neame

Quatse Creek. Photo by Joshua Wright.

My Summer Working as a Vancouver Island Forester

The rose-coloured glasses fell off my face and landed in the mud

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Emily Milne

Mallards in the marsh

A Labour of Love for Armstrong’s Wetlands

Restoring a marsh and an ecological community

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Claire Majors

Beaver by Tim Umphreys / Unsplash

The Beaver’s Gift: Ecosystem Engineering

Wildfires, Indigenous knowledge, and restoration

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Britney Supernault

Sockeye salmon by Tavish Campbell, Clayoquot Action

Court Upholds Fish Farm Phase-Out

North Islanders celebrate ruling to protect wild salmon

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Zannia Kidd and pawa haiyupis

Watershed Sentinel April-May 2026

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.

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