🚀 go-pugleaf

With all of the hype surrounding the B.C. government decision to allow
restricted logging in Clayoquot Sound, it appears that many have missed
B.C.'s first state of the environment report, issued this spring,
including myself.

Brian Kieran, in today's Vancouver Province, quotes the following from the
report:

- 5.1 million hectares (12.6 million acres) or almost 65 per cent of the
7.9 million hectares of the productive coastal forest-land base are over
120 years old.

- Two million hectares are considered suitable for timber harvesting.

- Three million hectares are inaccessible and will remain as coastal old
growth.

- About 200,000 hectares [1/2 million acres] of old growth are protected as
park and wilderness, and another 400,000 hectares have been identified for
possible protection.


The next time someone announces with horror that B.C. coastal rainforests are
gone, or that they will all be gone if logging isn't stopped now, can be
told with confidence that they are _dead_wrong_. 


-- 
Robert Froese  VE7MOQ
taganov biogeocoenose approach                  "Clearcutting is not a Crime"
taganov@unixg.ubc.ca