Canada | New map shows BC old-growth forest nearly gone
- Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Feb 10, 2021
- 1 min read
Many people imagine British Columbia as a province carpeted in forests, with giant old-growth trees, but a new interactive map reveals that little remains of B.C.’s original and ancient forests, showing logging and other industrial human activity as a vast sea of red.
The “Seeing Red” map, released Tuesday by the Prince George-based group Conservation North, took one year, 10 provincial and federal government datasets and $4,200 to pull together.
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-forests-old-growth-impacts-map/
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