A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions.
Unlike the US, Canadian logging companies pay a stumpage fee which goes into planting new trees so there’s no clear cutting. Even the article says the forests aren’t being completed reduced so the concern seems unwarranted.
Not saying they can’t do a better job but the article reads like a hit piece.
That would make sense if you were talking about a stable existing system of managed timberlands. When you convert virgin forest to managed timberlands, you are on net dumping a whole lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. And Canada is still doing that at scale.
Unlike the US, Canadian logging companies pay a stumpage fee which goes into planting new trees so there’s no clear cutting. Even the article says the forests aren’t being completed reduced so the concern seems unwarranted.
Not saying they can’t do a better job but the article reads like a hit piece.
That would make sense if you were talking about a stable existing system of managed timberlands. When you convert virgin forest to managed timberlands, you are on net dumping a whole lot of CO2 into the atmosphere. And Canada is still doing that at scale.