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.