OUR VIEW: Can we create more jobs while cutting fewer trees?

OUR VIEW: Can we create more jobs while cutting fewer trees?

A worker stacks lumber at the Partap Forest Products mill in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck At some point, we have to cut down some trees.

The forest industry in B.C. supplies building materials for homes and businesses, furniture, and the fast-growing mass timber construction industry, not to mention pulp for paper.

The good thing about trees is that they grow back. Unlike oil or coal or metals dug up out of the ground, we can ensure a fresh supply of timber pretty much in perpetuity, if we manage our forests in the right […]

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