For more than three decades, the fate of British Columbia's old-growth forests has been a major source of political strife. While more than 5 million hectares of wood were being clearcut, the BC wilderness movement and forest industry supporters clashed, as they continue to do, both pressing their arguments in a variety of forums, ranging from television studios and logging road blockades to royal commission hearings and cabinet ministers? offices. The resulting record of conflict confirms American historian Paul Hirt's characterization of forest policy as ?party an ideological issue,...
For more than three decades, the fate of British Columbia's old-growth forests has been a major source of political strife. While more than 5 milli...
For more than three decades, the fate of British Columbia's old-growth forests has been a major source of political strife. While more than 5 million hectares of wood were being clearcut, the BC wilderness movement and forest industry supporters clashed, as they continue to do, both pressing their arguments in a variety of forums, ranging from television studios and logging road blockades to royal commission hearings and cabinet ministers? offices. The resulting record of conflict confirms American historian Paul Hirt's characterization of forest policy as ?party an ideological issue,...
For more than three decades, the fate of British Columbia's old-growth forests has been a major source of political strife. While more than 5 milli...
