Stop Old-Growth Logging

Website/URL: http://wildernesscommittee.org/what_we_do/protecting_wild_lands/stop_old_growth_logging

Summary: British Columbia, Canada is home to some of the Earth's most spectacular, ancient temperate forests, including the world's largest Douglas fir tree (the Red Creek Fir) and second-largest western red cedar tree (the Cheewhat Cedar). These old forests provide essential habitat for endangered wildlife such as the spotted owl and marbled murrelet. The Wilderness Committee is asking the British Columbia government to protect the ancient forests of British Columbia by quickly banning logging in the most endangered old-growth forest types and phasing-out old-growth logging from the b of it by 2015. “Other jurisdictions, including New Zealand, have banned old-growth logging in recent years. BC can feasibly do the same as most of the richest valley bottom forests (where logging is most profitable) have already been converted into second growth forests where logging can occur at a reduced pace, while freeing-up the remaining ancient forests for protection.”


Opinion: When people have and receive jobs they get excited. When people are ruining the wildlife and their habitats, they get careless. 90% of the forests now-a-days are being evicted by logging and the careless ness of logging. Being one the most spectacular , ancient temperate forests including some of the worlds best and biggest trees, they forest should be only looked after and not messed with. People start going money crazy and then stop caring about everything else. This is something that should be taking under control and dealt with before it’s too late.