Turning over public forests to corporate interests? No thanks!
May 22, 2014
On Thurs. May 22, the Wilderness Committee's National Campaign Director Joe Foy made a submission in Vancouver to the panel headed by professional forester Jim Snetsinger (former BC Chief Forester) regarding the BC government's proposed expansion of area-based forest management. These area-based tenures, also known as Tree Farm Licences or TFLs, would essentially give corporate logging interests more control over BC's public forest lands.
Listen to the audio recording of Joe Foy's oral submission:
This submission refers to three of the Wilderness Committee's educational reports, which can be accessed here:
- BC Species at Risk - There Ought to be a Law
- British Columbia's Special Places
- Ancient Forests Forever
Click here to download the written submission.
The provincial government was accepting public comments on this issue until May 30th, 2014. You can view the comments submitted by stakeholders and the public on the government website here.
