Call for Sustainable Forest Management and Use of Wood Energy

environment · Denman and Hornby Islands

An opinion article advocates for managing second growth forests through thinning to reduce fire risk and promote sustainable use of wood for heating and building. It criticizes current government policies restricting wood stove use and forest management, suggesting that proper forest management could provide local jobs and energy independence.

This is the archive, not the newspaper. Between 2018 and 2026 this site compiled these items automatically from public community sources — chiefly The Islands Grapevine, regional news feeds and community groups. They were not written by a reporter and were not held to the standards this publication now applies. The archive is kept because it is a useful dated record of what happened on Denman, and it is labelled because pretending otherwise would be the first thing we would tell you not to trust. Current reporting is at The Denman Firestarter.

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• “We desperately need to remove excess second growth trees or we are going to have to let nature do it for us. How does nature take care of the problem? Fire!!!... Why is the government so intent on banning the use of wood burning stoves?” — The Islands Grapevine – March 31st, 2022 (March 31st, 2022)

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