Good news has been hard to come by for the forestry industry of late, but a number of nature-based projects are working to reverse the narrative.
A new update from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC highlights the progress those projects have made in fighting climate change and improving sustainability.
Projects in the north saw fibre which previously would’ve been burned in slash piles collected and used in local secondary manufacturing facilities.
Another project saw endangered whitebark pine trees grown and planted across the Northern region.
Roughly 11,000 hectares of second-growth forests were aerially fertilized along the coast, helping to offset up to 55 tonnes of CO2 emissions over 10 years.
54 million trees were planted in burned forests in the Interior to improve regeneration times and store more carbon.
With funding from the FESBC, projects across the province have combined to put 4.8 million cubic metres of wood to use, rather than being burned in a cutblock.
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