For a long time, Canada's B.C province has been the most important forest industry agglomeration, with abundant forest resources and logs below the price of other regions.
However, the long-term slump in timber prices since 2019 and the subsequent sharp increase in tax policies for the timber industry by the local government have further exacerbated the exit of local timber companies. Today, the cost of logs in B.C Province is at the forefront of the global timber market.
Recently, bc's Minister of Forests announced a plan to delay the deforestation of more than 26,000 square kilometers of forest, including a piece of the province's primary forest, with the consent of 204 Indigenous people. Meanwhile, Minister Conroy defended her position by saying she refused to accept unfair allegations that she relied on biased investigative team recommendations made up of environmentalists, thereby undermining the future of the forest community in B.C Province.
Butler and other union officials, who represent 12,000 forestry workers in B.C., said they were excluded from a process aimed at reforming the industry. They argue that industrial foresters should be in the technical group to suggest where traditional logging should be suspended.
According to the Forest Industry Council's analysis, the extension will result in the closure of 14 to 20 sawmills, two pulp mills and manufacturing facilities, implying about 18,000 jobs and $400 million in annual revenue.
And just last year, the deforestation of primary forests caused a lot of friction, with a court ban on logging protests in the Fairy Creek area south of Vancouver Island leading to the royal Canadian Mounted Police arresting more than 1,150 people since May.
Earlier this year, B.C province announced a temporary postponement of the harvesting of 196,000 hectares of primary forest in nine different areas next fall.
At the same time that Canada's B.C province announced the above policy, the Black Mountain Forest in the northern U.S. state of South Dakota also announced plans to reduce deforestation.
According to Jeff Tomak, head of montenegro forests, over the past 11 years, loggers have collected an average of 191,000 CCF per year from Montenegro's national forests. But this year the state's Forest Service will reduce that number to about 124,000 CCF, and then possibly to an average of 90,000 or 100,000 CCF in subsequent years. The Forest Service measures wood using a unit called a CCF, which is equivalent to 100 cubic feet.
Judging from the past and recent news, although the Canadian province of B.C and North America have rich forest resources, from the policy to the attitude of local residents, they have not been the same. It is also the increased risk of cost and policy factors, and more timber companies are setting up new factories in the southern united states, where the southern pine is also popular in the market, and more importantly, the cost of logs is cheaper.