The BC Green Party has tabled legislation to uniformly protect bear dens across the province.
The BC Green Party has tabled legislation to uniformly protect bear dens, which double as winter nurseries, across the province.
“To ensure it's not just a patchwork based on the goodwill of forestry companies here or there,” he said.Olsen is hopeful the bill might garner cross-party support rather than be left to languish unadopted by the province. However, the persistent loss of large trees to logging over the past century means good den sites are declining. And second-growth trees don't grow large enough to provide shelter before being harvested again, she said.
The proposed legislation shouldn't be too onerous for the province to enact or forestry companies to follow, Davis said. Logging companies harvesting on Crown land must already leave some stands of trees untouched for wildlife's sake, she said. "If our populations are threatened, it's a 500-year-old fix,” she said. “We can't just say, 'Oh! We better grow a new den.'"
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