Felling Short: British Columbia’s Old Growth management Areas Falling Short on Protecting Old Growth Forests

We crunched the data and took a close look at Old Growth Management Areas – a type of ‘other conserved area’ (aka OECM) in BC that is intended to protect rare and important biodiverse old growth forests. These areas are counted as protected by the BC government, but we found active and harvested cutblocks inside Old Growth Management Areas, and very little old growth forest.