Is Forestry Pathological?

The Clear Cut

If natural forests are ‘self-willed, self-managing, and self-replacing’ to respond and adapt to disturbances like fire and pest-outbreaks, should we be logging more as some suggest? Or should our approach be more precautionary?
This week, Michelle Connolly from Conservation North takes us back into the forests of British Columbia. She breaks down for us the severity of B.C.'s industrial logging impacts that her organization has documented through spatial mapping. While logging is advertised as a necessary means to manage B.C.’s forests, including for pests and wildfires, we unpack why fire and pests are actually part of the natural forest cycle.
Learn more about Conservation North on their website and check out the Seeing Red map.
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Chapters

1. Is Forestry Pathological? (00:00:00)

2. [Ad] Purpose & Profit Club™ for Nonprofits (00:21:49)

3. (Cont.) Is Forestry Pathological? (00:22:38)