Logging down the worth chain raises future forest sustainability considerations

Over a 50-year interval, logging on B.C.’s Central Coast preferentially focused the best worth places on the panorama, in accordance with new analysis. The systematic depletion of high-value parts of the surroundings raises considerations about future sustainability and intergenerational entry to pure sources. Led by SFU PhD graduate Jordan Benner and professor emeritus Ken Lertzman and revealed this week within the journal Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences, their analysis reveals that, over time, harvesting operations moved to forest stands of more and more decrease productiveness and accessibility, which they confer with as ‘harvesting down the worth chain’.