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British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it
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WBAL Baltimore News
PORT RENFREW, British Columbia (AP) — The five-car caravan crept down a gravel logging road as the day’s last beams of golden light filtered through the trees.
The fight is not unique to British Columbia.
As old-growth logging has continued elsewhere on the island, activists are again returning to the forests.
At the same time, British Columbia Premier David Eby’s government has pledged to increase timber harvests in an effort to revitalize the forestry sector.
“If we were to shut down harvesting of all old forests here in British Columbia, it would shut down our sector completely on day one.”