Forest Industry

Question 1

Why is exporting logs important?

Answer 1

-exporting logs play an important role in BC’s coastal economy.

-exporting logs supports jobs for logging and transportation sectors.

Question 2

What’s the significance of old growth forests?

Answer 2

Old growth forest help protect our ecosystem and are important to the first nations practices and culture.

Question 3

What did the mountain pine beetles effect?

Answer 3

-since the mountain pine beetles took out trees that provided shade for the streams this caused diseases, parasites, and raised the water temperature.

• affected other species like the salmon population.

-cause erosion and damage to stream channels (areas around the stream channel face, economic collapse)

Effected the population of trees + forests in BC.

Question 4

What was the problem with mountain pine beetles?

Answer 4

The mountain pine beetles are an invasive specie and are overpopulated due to climate change. These insects affect BC by feeding on lodgepole pine trees, taking out forests that provide and protect our environment.

Question 5

What are the main forestry stewardship enforced plans?

Answer 5

The 1912 first forest act establishing forest service regulations.

And the 2004 forest and range act took affect to maintain environment standards.