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The changing nature of Canada's forest supply as fires, bugs, and climate bite

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The changing nature of Canada's forest supply as fires, bugs, and climate bite | CBC News

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Mills in the heart of Canada's timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees. After seeing record high softwood lumber prices earlier this year, Canada's forestry industry is facing an uncertain future due to falling demand from a cooling U.S.

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Canada's timber industry have fallen  this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change which have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees. This situation is causing many issues such as production cuts, Job cuts, and rising lumber prices.

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Everyone that Canada exports to is involved, because due to lumber becoming more of a limited resource, lumber prices are rising. Also, individuals working in the lumber industry, are being laid off due to companies not having the same amount of resources available to them as they once had.

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If these wildfires continue it will cause many issues and many problems will arise such as production cuts, job cuts, and rising lumber prices. The impact of climate change on the health of forests is hard to predict, however, as changing weather patterns lead to both wetter and drier conditions, while a variety of threats including insects like the pine beetle, fir beetle, spruce budworm as well as diseases and fungi get worse, I can predict that it would only get worse.

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Pine Beetles:
Large amounts of B.C. forests are being killed by pine beetles - has been occurring for some time. This in addition to the drier conditions are what have led to the large amounts of forest fires in B.C.

Forest Fires:
1.2 million hectares of forest was destroyed in wildfires in 2017, and last year, 1.4 million hectares were destroyed.
In the 10 years before 2017, there was an average of 151,000 hectares of destroyed forests.

Climate Change:
Melting permafrost is leading to trees falling over in waterlogged soil (Barry Cooke, Natural Resources Canada).
Growth rings are thinning and lower quality plants and trees are growing faster - masking the decline of core species.

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Do you think that there is any chance that this problem could be resolved?

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How this issue has impacted Canada and Canadian companies

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How this issue has impacted Canada and Canadian companies

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West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.
Timber supply shortages, leading to cutting 300 million board feet of production - cost of 75 jobs  in sawmills. Also production cuts at interior mills - result of shortage.
Interior Corp.
Cut 20% of production in last quarter - escalating log costs.
Canfor Corp.
Curtailed production in B.C. by 10% - log supply.
Conifex Timber Inc.
production cuts by 15% first half of year, 10% second half.

Overall, because of the low supply, there would be production cuts, job cuts, and higher lumber prices, affecting trade with other countries.

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We need to know about this because this issue impacts the economy, and the economy has a significant impact on people (jobs, education, healthcare,taxes..) This issue also has a substantial impact on our environment which has a direct impact on the air we breathe, the water we drink, and habitats for animals.