“New Policies Needed to Save Our Forests.” We highlighted the sea of clear-cuts, citing how they were “reducing landscape complexity and affecting broad-scale ecological processes such as hydrology, carbon fluxes, and species migrations.” We wrote about young, simplified forests planted solely with single species that were declining due to insect, disease, and abiotic damage, and said this would worsen with climate change. Deep cuts to funding forest science had greatly reduced British Columbia’s capacity to assess the true state of our forests and respond appropriately.
