Sacrificing caribou to save forestry is a fool’s errand—it’s time we stop playing the fool

Structural changes in Canada’s logging industry are devastating boreal forest communities and work forces. But the economic consequences of those changes have little to do with habitat conservation or environmental regulation.

Bruce Lourie says fear of being criticized for hurting the forestry industry is getting in the way of governments acting to protect caribou, but failing to do so, 'wont' help the forestry sector one bit.'Photograph by Peupleloup, courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY BRUCE LOURIE

October 31, 2017

Canada’s boreal forest is a place where jobs and wildlife protection, the economy and the environment, rise or fall together. That was the common-sense understanding between environmental groups and forest companies that drove the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) in 2010. Somehow, seven ye...

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