The mill closes. Vancouver doesn’t notice. Three mayors want to change that.

Forestry’s political problem isn’t in the forest — it’s in the cities. Three BC mayors at COFI laid out what it will actually take to fix it.
Fifteen thousand jobs gone. The trees are still there.

Industry leaders, First Nations, government and researchers gathered in Vancouver this week for the annual BC Council of Forest Industries convention — and delivered the most candid reckoning with the sector’s decline in years, along with a specific, shared prescription for reversing it.
BC forestry: Endless change, constant woes

BC has introduced a host of new and confusing changes affecting the forest sector