Population boom will pressure forests: reports

Published: Monday, July 14, 2008
LONDON – Booming demand for food, fuel and wood as the world’s population surges from six to nine billion will put unprecedented and unsustainable demand on the world’s remaining forests, two new reports said on Monday.

Island’s private forest logging grows: report

Companies say trees ready to be cut; others cry foul over raw log exports
Gordon Hamilton, Canwest News Service
The Douglas fir forests of southern Vancouver Island are being logged at a faster rate than they were as recently as five years ago, according to a report on private-land logging by resource researcher Ben Parfitt.
The report examines for the first time the harvesting rates on the swath of private forestland on the Island’s eastern slopes from Sooke to Campbell River. It shows that 2007 logging rates were up more than 20 per cent over 2003, when much of the private land was in government-regulated tree farm licences.