{"id":449969,"date":"2026-02-02T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:38:07","slug":"b-c-forestry-review-calls-for-more-transparent-data-assessment-of-old-growth-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449969\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. forestry review calls for more transparent data, assessment of old-growth trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A government-commissioned review of forestry in\u00a0British\u00a0Columbia\u00a0is calling for the system to be razed and rebuilt with a focus on trust and transparency about the state of the province’s forests, shifting away “from managing harvest volumes to managing lands.”<\/p>\n

The final report from the Provincial Forestry Advisory Council says trust has been eroded by inconsistent forest data controlled largely by industry and government, and calls for the creation of a transparent forest inventory based on laser measurements with a new independent body to manage the information.<\/p>\n

The report says there also needs to be an arm’s-length assessment of high-value old growth trees to reduce conflict and ensure everyone is working from the same reliable data.<\/p>\n

If left within government, the report says the changes won’t happen thanks to obstacles like election cycles, fragmented mandates and resistance to change.<\/p>\n

The authors of the report, who include a former chief forester, industry representatives and academics, say the province needs to change the way it allots trees, allowing decisions to be made by individual regions, outside the provincial government.<\/p>\n

They say the report comes at a pivotal moment when boom-and-bust cycles have seen increasing declines, ecological degradation and eroding trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-449969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}