Canadian Rainforest Reports

Salvaging Solutions: Science-based management of BC's pine beetle outbreak reviews the current understanding of lodgepole pine and mountain pine beetle ecology and management. The goal of the report is to evaluate the current approach of mountain pine beetle management and identify more ecologically appropriate alternatives based on the scientific literature and other available information. Salvaging Solutions focuses on management within the timber harvesting landbase, on the understanding that protected areas must remain unlogged, both to meet the regional conservation objectives and to provide opportunities for understanding unmanaged forest ecosystems.

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A Cut Above: Ecological Principles for Sustainable Forestry on BC's coast outlines nine principles to guide the development and implementation of ecologically sustainable forest practices in coastal British Columbia. Drafted with help from an advisory team of leaders in the field of ecological sustainability, these guiding principles illustrate a fundamentally different approach to forest management and planning in comparison to the current, industrial model. The report provides an ecological rationale for each principle, as well as examples of “best practices” drawn from existing frameworks in other jurisdictions to illustrate realistic models of how the principles can be applied on the ground. Also detailed are relevant current practices in British Columbia and key areas of ecological uncertainty that exist regarding each principle.

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Falldown: Forest Policy in British Columbia
Dr. Patricia Marchak argues that there is a better way to manage BC's forests and forest industry and to create jobs while conserving the forests. In this report she demonstrates that current forestry management is not only destroying the timber base, on which a healthy forest industry depends, but is contributing to a host of other problems. Forest companies are losing money, workers in the industry are being laid off, and forest-dependent communities are in a state of economic crisis. Without a new commitment to conservation, these problems will continue.

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Chopping Up the Money Tree
The solid, factual approach of this report avoids the rhetoric that often clouds discussion of the forest industry. Dr. Richard Schwindt and Dr. Terry Heaps provide an historical analysis of how the wealth created by forestry in British Columbia has been distributed to the Crown, labour, and business. (1996)

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Sacred Cedar: The Cultural and Archaeological Significance of Culturally Modified Trees
Ancient culturally modified trees (CMTs) are archaeological testaments to aboriginal logging practices and forest use. Found primarily in old-growth cedar stands along the coast of British Columbia, these trees have great cultural, spiritual, and anthropological importance. Arnoud Stryd and Vicki Feddema point out that protecting these treasures has and will change modern forestry practices. (1999)

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Directory of Small Business Funding and Support Services

This informative directory lists over 100 sources of funding and support for small businesses. It's designed to benefit communities and individuals in British Columbia who are attempting to develop new ventures and diversify local economies.(1996)

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