UBC researchers advocate for sustainable logging to safeguard against global flood risks
MIke Morris MIke Morris

UBC researchers advocate for sustainable logging to safeguard against global flood risks

It’s time to recognize the power of healthy forests in managing global growing flood risk, and to shift towards more sustainable forestry practices and policy.

This call is emphasized by UBC researchers in a peer-reviewed article published recently in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

B.C.'s Fraser Valley in November 2021. Credit: UBC Applied Science

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The impacts of clearcut logging on Goshawks in BC

The large breeding territories of these apex birds, once common throughout BC, require Old Growth forests to survive, raise their chicks and teach them to forage. Large scale clear-cut harvesting, over time, removes the Old Growth structure needed for the birds to forage for their own and their chick's survival

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Mike Morris Mike Morris

Clearcuts – there is a better way to do forestry!

Professor Cindy Prescott, department of forest and conservation science, faculty of forestry, university of British Columbia says there is. I recently corresponded with professor Prescott and her work in this area

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FINDING A BETTER BALANCE IN B.C.
Mike Morris Mike Morris

FINDING A BETTER BALANCE IN B.C.

Since 2013, Mike Morris has served as an MLA with the British Columbia Liberal Party (now called BC United) for the Prince George – Mackenzie riding in northern British Columbia. Before entering politics, he spent 32 years working as an RCMP officer. When not working or volunteering he would spend most of his free time with his family or getting out into the forests hunting and trapping.

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