The Green party says a plan to protect 54 of the province’s largest and oldest trees from the risk of being harvested is inadequate. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson says a one-hectare buffer zone will be set up around each of the giant old-growth trees, which are located in more than two dozen locations across the province. But Green M-L-A Adam Olsen says protecting 54 trees isn’t good enough given the ongoing, unsustainable logging of old-growth across the province. Donaldson says an independent two-person panel will start meetings this fall with First Nations, industry and communities about how to manage old growth forests.
