The forest industry

Wildfires rage as real forestry change flounders: have we all lost hope for forestry’s revival?
The forest crisis British Columbia built for itself

A federal task force calls the damage to Canada’s forest sector “homegrown.” This week’s permanent closure of a Prince George pulp mill shows exactly what that word means — and why the reckoning belongs in Victoria.
‘The forest industry has been the lifeblood of Mackenzie’

With mills shutting down and the tax base shrinking, Peter Kyllo argues that stable policy, not protection, is what resource towns need to survive