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Forestry industry platforms

Here's what the 2026 BC Provincial Election parties are promising.

BC NDP
  • Provide $50M to convert old-growth deferrals into permanent protections and retrofit mills

    "Protecting old-growth trees: $50 million to convert old-growth deferrals of the most irreplaceable and rarest forests into permanent protections, while supporting mills to retrofit and make more value-added products with second growth." — bcndp.ca, retrieved 2026-10-13

We don't have any BC Conservative policies on Forestry industry.

BC Green
  • Reset the forest sector around a sustainable fibre supply, regional planning, more local manufacturing, and more value from every tree harvested
  • End conventional clear-cutting across public forests, and work with First Nations, communities, workers, and industry to transition away

    "End conventional clearcutting across BC’s public forests. Work with First Nations, forest communities, workers and the industry to transition away from conventional clearcutting and toward forestry that maintains forest structure and reflects the ecology of each landscape." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Expand community and First Nations forestry with more and larger community forests without a requirement to maintain the Annual Allowable Cut

    "Expand community and First Nations forestry by increasing the number and size of community forests, removing requirements that force them to maintain the Annual Allowable Cut, and working toward dedicating 20% of the AAC to community forests." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Make more forest tenure be held by First Nations, communities, and smaller operators

    "Reform forest tenure so that more tenure is held by First Nations, communities and smaller operators rather than concentrated among a small number of large companies." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

  • Shift forestry towards partial harvesting, selective logging, commercial thinning, and longer rotations

    "Shift forestry toward partial harvesting, selective logging, commercial thinning, longer rotations and other practices that maintain more forest structure and better reflect the ecology of each landscape." — Believe in Better, retrieved 2026-10-13

We don't have any OneBC policies on Forestry industry.
We don't have any CentreBC policies on Forestry industry.

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