Trees not endangered species in B.C.

'We have lots of forest, it’s just the forest we’re operating in for timber harvesting has become a lot less,' forestry expert David Elstone says.

Mill closures prompted by a lack of economically-viable fibre continue to plague the province’s forest industry but in no way is British Columbia becoming a treeless moonscape.

“We are not running out of trees in this province, we have good forest management,” said Elstone. “We have about 57 million hectares of forest and we’re only logging 22 million hectares of forest and in that 22 million there are further constraints on what we actually go about harvesting. B.C. lumber production declined more than 50 per cent from 2006 to 2022, largely due to the dwindling supplies of pine beetle-killed trees and such factors as wildfires, spruce beetle infestations, old growth deferrals and caribou habitat protection.

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