The New Forest Act Roadshow launches this week across British Columbia to dispel the following myths about forestry in BC.
MYTH #1: Mill closures are mostly about tariffs and markets
Reality: Markets matter. But depleted forests matter too.
Good timber is becoming harder and more expensive to access. The operable land base is shrinking. Costs rise while forest conditions decline. Mill closures are not just economic bad luck. They are the result of a forestry system designed around industrial volume colliding with ecological limits.
MYTH #2: Forestry reform means shutting logging down
Reality: No.
The New Forest Act is not an anti-logging proposal. It is a replacement framework designed to keep forestry working – but working differently.
Protect what must remain standing.
Restore damaged landscapes.
Harvest from previously disturbed forests using methods that work within ecological limits.
Protect. Restore. Harvest.
That means forestry continues but with different rules, different priorities, and different outcomes.
MYTH #3: Government just needs to manage forestry better
Reality: The current forestry system is producing exactly what it was designed to produce.
BC’s forestry laws were built around timber supply and industrial volume. When the legal structure stays the same, the outcomes usually stay the same too.
That’s why the New Forest Act doesn’t ask government to “do better” inside the current model. It proposes a new one.
It is a legislative replacement framework.
Because at some point we have to ask a serious question: Are BC’s forestry laws producing the outcomes people actually want?
Stable communities?
Reliable timber supply?
Healthy watersheds?
Lower disaster risk?
Long-term jobs?
Or are we trying to force an outdated design to keep working?
That’s what this tour is about. Not another vague conversation about “doing better.” A focused presentation on a fully developed legislative framework for forestry reform in British Columbia.
If you’ve been following this project online, the Roadshow is where we go deeper. And if you’ve been wondering whether there is an actual solution being proposed –The New Forest Act is the only viable replacement framework in the province.
The conversation is changing. Now we take it on the road.
Tour dates and locations:
June 2 – Golden
June 3 – Nelson
June 4 – Trail
June 6 – Penticton
June 8 – 100 Mile House
June 11 – Campbell River
June 13 – Quadra Island
June 15 – Courtenay
June 16 – Port Alberni
June 17 – Honeymoon Bay
June 19 – Powell River
June 22 – Victoria
Details: boundaryforest.org
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