This study analyses the impact of cuts and changes to BC's Forest Service over the past decade, and concludes with a call for a provincial commission of inquiry into the state of the Forest Service.(VANCOUVER) A decade of layoffs and budget cuts, combined with the recent radical cabinet reorganization, have so thoroughly gutted BC’s Forest Service that the door is wide open to abuses of the province’s cherished public forestlands, a new study concludes.
Based on analysis of government employment data, the study reveals that in less than a decade one quarter of all Forest Service...
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