The B.C. government is promising $25 million to help plan the management of old-growth forests in the province.
The funding will go towards the province's Forest Landscape Planning tables, which help logging sites operate properly under B.C.'s land-use policies.
"In collaboration with First Nations and industry, we are accelerating our actions to protect our oldest and rarest forests," said B.C. Premier David Eby in a release Wednesday. "The [fund] will, for example, support mills to process smaller-diameter trees and manufacture higher-value wood products, such as mass timber," said the province in its release Wednesday.
"It will accelerate shovel-ready projects across the manufacturing ecosystem that will bring direct benefits and stable, family-supporting jobs to communities throughout the province," the release continued.
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