Forests and Forestry in British Columbia, Canada - Context-Setting Report

Editor: Eric Hawthorne         Last Revised: Jan 19, 1995

Geographical context

A rich mixture of interrelated issues

Stakeholders and viewpoints

The state of the forest

Bio-diversity, eco-systems and species

Forest disturbances (non-harvesting)

Timber harvesting

Economic and societal impacts

Land legal status


Currently, this is the only context-setting overview report produced by this project group.

If you have referenced information that you would like included in this context-setting report, please e-mail it to egh@mda.ca .

If you have a completely different perspective on the overall context of forest and forestry issues in British Columbia, you may submit an alternative context-setting report for inclusion in this project information system.

There is one restriction, however. To qualify as a context-setting report, the report must be broad enough in scope to touch on and introduce a comprehensive subset of the overall set of high- level issues in Forests and Forestry in British Columbia province. Any reasonable attempt at this breadth will be accepted as a context-setting report for the project.

If you are not prepared to do an alternative context-setting report, but would like to submit a narrower-scope alternative report on a more specific topic or set of topics, then by all means submit it to the project, and it can be included in the project's Source Document Library. This current report is just a source document from the library which is also accessible as a context-setting report because of its broad scope and its ability to serve as an introduction to many issues.