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BC's old-growth forest deferrals negatively impacted the province's secondary forest products sector (Canada)
Posted on January 24, 2022 |
- The secondary sector is unmoved by the BC government’s plan to protect up to an extra 2.6 million hectares of old-growth forests because the wood that BC's secondary manufacturers use, comes from old growth.
- Secondary manufacturing can include paper mills and remanufactured wood products that repeatedly use low-value wood and lumber products, such as for wooden fence picket production.
- 570,000 hectares of timber is now closed to buyers, affecting secondary manufacturers and primary sawmills.