Publication - January 1, 1998
For the past one hundred years, B.C. has built its economic wealth on the extraction of resources. With the advent of industrial-scale logging in the 1950s, a staggering amount of wood began to be cut. Today the number of trees cut in B.C. each year would fill enough logging trucks to circle the globe one and a quarter times. Our province has literally been depleting its natural wealth by overcutting our forests.