BC Must Stop Blaming First Nations for Old-Growth Logging – The Tyee

April 23, 2026

Instead of subsidizing logging, the province should follow experts’ advice and pay nations to conserve forests.

You would be forgiven for thinking that British Columba’s Ministry of Forests is really the Ministry of Logging.

A recent ministry news release boasts of a 30 per cent increase in timber auctioned, legislative amendments that will result in 17,700 more truckloads of logs coming out of the province’s forests each year, and a new streamlined permitting process that will add another 11,100 truckloads of logs to the mix.