‘It’s not even close to equitable’: B.C. First Nations push to reshape forestry – The Narwhal

Oct. 15, 2025

Nations across B.C. are buying into forestry tenures once controlled by multinational companies. But with old-growth trees dwindling and mills shutting down, the stakes are high

A morning fog has cleared at the Kelsey Bay log sort near the town of Sayward, B.C., on Vancouver Island. Thick drifts of pulverized cedar bark pile against the loading dock, evidence of the millions of trees that departed from here across the ocean, never to return.

“We’ve seen our territories decimated,” Wei Wai Kum Chief Christopher Roberts explains. Behind him, five freshly cut, old-growth cedars line the warming pavement.

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