The Case for Rezoning British Columbia’s Forestlands with Ben Parfitt

Join Ben Parfitt who will focus on the current crisis confronting our forests – rampant and unsustainable logging – and what we as a society are collectively inheriting: tree plantations with radically less biodiversity than the primary forests they replaced. What should we be doing with these lands? Should all of them be treated as fibre farms, solely for the production of timber? And if this is not the desired outcome, then what should we as a society be doing instead?

Past proposals to zone the province’s forestlands have been met with skepticism at best and outright hostility/opposition, particularly from more conservation-oriented citizens. But as the years go by and more and more primary forest is cut down, the need for some kind of rethinking of what we are doing is desperately needed.

As things now stand, we effectively have just two zones in the province: protected areas and resource development zones. Is this sufficient given the myriad challenges we face after nearly two centuries of industrial exploitation of our forests?

More information, and to participate in-person go here: https://www.ecoforestry.ca/…/11/2/annual-general-meeting

For the zoom meeting link, and/or to receive a link to the recording go here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88115912584?pwd=gclUnnYtzbr3WbjqY4efDQDQGgXZ6J.1