Canada’s forestry and tree-planting policies must count both sides of the ledger

In between the credit and debit side is an incredibly complex world involving our choices about what forests we log and what we do with the trees we log.

A tree logged and turned immediately into pellets is a very different thing from a tree logged and turned into boards that then frame a house, writes Ben Parfitt.Unsplash photograph by Markus Spiske

Opinion

BY BEN PARFITT

December 9, 2020

There was every reason to believe in the early spring of this year that the most ambitious tree-planting program in British Columbia’s history would be scuttled by COVID-19. A record 310 million seedlings were slated to be planted. But with the unfolding pandemic, all bets were off. Only after t...

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