Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The giant trees that most of us associate with the term old growth now only make up 3% of the forests, but they are still being logged on Vancouver Island. The market is being flooded with young second and third growth timber that possesses a large percentage of sapwood. A Cortes builder (and Vice President of the of the Cortes Community Forest Cooperative) explains why you do not want to use this wood on the outside of your home. The BC Liberal candidate, Norm Facey, declines to comment. His party frames this issue in terms of jobs. Green candidate Alexandra Morton says we are running out of resources - houses, salmon, timber, but "it doesn't need to be that way if we plan for these things and work together on it." NDP candidate Michele Babchuk talks about government policy.
