What are the lasting effects of B.C.’s logging?

[@georgej7077]

The same thing is happening on Vancouver Island. Logging companies are very strategic in where they leave trees so it becomes a facade hiding the massive clear cuts from the majority of the public. It's heart breaking..

[@NerdyAboutNature]

Such an important issue - thank you CBC for doing some reporting on this! 🙌

[@davidspriggs8268]

Please CBC keep making more videos and news reports on this so the public is aware. It is criminal what is happening and people should know about it.

[@emuirhead7008]

Mike Morris is awesome!

[@baurdavid6924]

In other words, there are no state-regulated reforestation programs in BC like there are in Switzerland, for example, did I understand that correctly?

[@Dbodell8000]

Logging and shipping off our trees off to foreign lands.

[@Laurencemardon]

The sickest usage of the term sustainable harvest ever??

[@pasca1177]

I would like to see more trees left standing for future seedlings. That way you don't have to replant the forest with a monoculture. Either way, it's fine. It will grow back in a few decades.

[@bobinabuddy]

Before I even watch NO trees and major flooding due to NO trees??

[@CallMeNumber8]

Absolutely I believe it is exactly what happens if they kill so many trees. Look at Turkey. They had their huge 50k dear earthquake exactly where a year earlier they had a huge forest fire and lost entire forest pretty much and then they planted little olive trees there. Trees hold water in roots. When you remove the tree it lets go of water. Perhaps our elite is preparing word wide flood for us soon. Biblical

[@matthewolson22]

wow i did't now!

[@Ghfvhvfg]

Ridiculous considering in Switzerland its subsided

[@tallisrocktube]

There is some major false information in this video..first and most important is this..BC has very strict regulations regarding forest practices..cut blocks are limited to 40 hectre or 100 acres..that may seem large and I see the helicopter aerial shots shows that ..but the industry is very expensive..location- road building -geo technical studies which include soil and water and re:growth considerations and wild life protection corridors are all included..its easy to point out what appears as devastation..but what is not talked about here is the care of returning the land to its former state..this is all done under the forest practices code of renewable resources..actually brought into law by the NDP government in the 1990s.the forest logging companies are bound to these regulations..it was MLA Mike Morris and his Liberal party under Christy Clark that wanted the forest practices code scrapped..Mr.Morris maintaining that the whole Provence is under forest devastation is completely false..the areas in question are most likely already replanted with beautiful seedlings..shame on the CBC for spreading disinformation.I must add this..logging in BC in conducted on Crown land tree farm licenses and not first nations land it has been for over 150 years..many of these plots have been logged before in the 1900-20s-50s-70s ect ect..

[@VanillaAttila]

You think monocrop replanting doesn't have detrimental effects? They are having a harder time to replant areas now than before, it's a snowball effect. You can't just keep stripping it bare and think it's going to regenerate the same. You also lack understanding of how animal habitat are affected. Yes lots of regulations and red tape, but also loaded boards with logging and milling company plants. It definitely has contributed to the water holding capacity of our mountains, and to larger floods. The climate is also changing to drier and tougher for replanting to get established. The clearcutting practices need to be adjusted to selective logging. We have the technology. It's much more environmentally friendly and economical to export nat gas than our lumber overseas and only mill what we need for ourselves. We need to do better.

[@VanillaAttila]

Also, just download google Earth, and look around our province. It's like swiss cheese. Much more barren clear cut areas right now than you think.

[@RCN_RVN]

😂

[@FrankyLi-56913]

Decrease logging scale by 1/3

[@skylarsoper241]

I’m a bc logger all my life like my father and his father and his father , it’s a living resource, it can come back in a human life span , I have logged 80 year old second growth up Harrison lake nice wood . Oh and funny little fact about trees , young trees consume way more carbon than old growth whom hardly eat half as much as young trees 🌲, I’m not going to argue on the fact that there is always a better way of going about it . Loggers are not the problem they are like my forefathers and Stewart’s of the living forest , of course we want to keep at it forever so better take care of our lively hood

[@aravindkumarp6069]

I respect you and your profession. But you have not understood fully how the forests work. To understand it you have to look at the net carbon and net oxygen consumption results. Trees consume both oxygen and carbon. Old trees produce less oxygen than new trees but consume more carbon and they act as carbon sinks. For the new forests to start act as carbon sinks it takes at least 20years for the forest to grow. Also Canopy soil in old forests developed over decades supports variety of bacteria and insects to develop nutrients to sustain various animals and other organisms. These forests are Bio diversity homes. For observation leave an animal to choose old forest and new forest and it chooses old forest as it is rich for its habitat.

[@skylarsoper241]

I never said log it all , I enjoy walking around in a healthy old growth stand , but we have lots of second growth third growth we should keep farming that and only select log a handful so to speak of old growth, the problem is that there is a heck of a market for it , plus theeee is still a lot of old growth left just not anywhere near our half of one percent of bc which I live in , I’ve logged in camps up the coast where they’ve been logging for 100 plus years and they still haven’t even started to get after the big stands of old growth because it’s just to damned tuff to get out

[@georgej7077]

I'm a third generation coastal logger retired from the profession in 1991. I don't recognize what's happening in the woods now, with the loads of tiny hay logs being loaded onto multiple ships per week and sent over seas, just from Vancouver Island.. What happened to letting the trees get to a proper size before cutting? If we did we'd be able to leave way more land untouched for the same amount of fibre. And for the love of God let's plant something other than Doug Fir, and not in rows.

[@WillSheMakeit_]

So this trapper thinks logging kills his Martins and that’s not ok but if they didn’t log it and he kills the martins then that’s fine??? How did the animals make it before trappers showed up? 😂

[@CallMeNumber8]

Trees should have their living rights protected by law. How dare people cut god's trees. Business is evil. Do not touch trees. They are not yours. Trees are alive. We depend on trees to breathe. Animals depend on trees to live. We must protect trees worldwide. Wake up human spirit

[@thefame4554]

Horrible