I think this is an important aspect of #bcekxn2024 #bcpoli

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@hanspetermeyer @PhoenixSerenity it gives me hope that there are resource folks (alot!) that get it.

Ms. Que Banh

@hanspetermeyer @chris I hope Eby will do better. I'm not holding my breath.

Ms. Que Banh

@chris @hanspetermeyer Most resource extraction folks I've talked to really want progressive changes to happen but don't feel supported. That needs to change if we are to move forward & not keep spinning same wheels in same ruts.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@PhoenixSerenity @hanspetermeyer agreed

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@lacouvee @chris I don’t know how volumes of fibre compare, but there are 100s more stems per acre in today’s industrial forest than there were in the natural forests of 50 or 100 years ago (or today, we’re still cutting old growth stands).
Industry loves standardization. Many small trees are easier & cheaper to process. It really is “fibre industry” today. Not a “forest industry.” BC, and especially VI, grows fibre - fast.
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#bcpoli #forestry

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@lacouvee @chris
Forest industry or fibre industry?
Does that matter to a contract logger who’s trying to feed his monthly payments on equipment, before he even gets to feed his family? Hardly.
Does it matter to those of us who value qualities beyond fibre? Absolutely. I know many loggers who love the natural forests they once worked in or heard about working in. Some of them feel this tension. But feeling it, that doesn’t pay the bills.
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@hanspetermeyer @lacouvee I have a deep mistrust and suspicion of the Truck Loggers Association as a vessel for everything that is hurting both our forests and the people working within them.

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@chris @PhoenixSerenity Long, deep breathing. Sitting in the forest —usually an old second growth stand of Douglas Firs and Broadleaf Maple. Listening to the ravens. That’s what I do.
We —I!— need a lot of calm going forward. (Fascists hate calm.)

ps. If you know any written material on the 1990s BC “war in the woods,” please send it my way. There is much to understand, much to learn that *may* bear fruit today.

#bcpoli #forestry #fascism #yoga

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@chris @lacouvee I used to write/photograph for the TLA
Even in my few years around that crew I saw what I thought were good changes. Some good people.
But they were (& imagine still are) squeezed by corporate profiteers. And rather bite the hand that feeds them, they will lobby against progressive policy.
They are a lobby organization with one goal: maximize the short-term business (financial) interests of their members. Much weaker than they once were.

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@chris @lacouvee Meanwhile, the ones who squeeze them (used to be repped by lobby org FIR, Forest Industry Council), are quietly mistrusted but publicly allowed to do their business as usual: turning forests into fibre farms, maximizing shareholder profits at truckloggers’, BC communities’, and BC taxpayers’ expense. TLA gets a bad rep, sometimes unearned. The villains are behind the curtain…

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