The administration and care of British Columbia’s publicly owned forestlands – some 60 million hectares, an area larger than France – is unstable and in deep trouble. The shifting of forest governance among three ministries in less than a year, following a decade of deregulation, has eroded forest stewardship and sustainable forest management in B.C. Signs that we are losing our grip on stewardship are evident in declining forest health and in expanding understocked forests -also known as NSR (not satisfactorily restocked) -over an increasingly clear-cut and fragmented landscape. Read more
