By Russ Taylor, RUSS TAYLOR GLOBAL and David Elstone, SPAR TREE GROUP/VIEW FROM THE STUMP   VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA - April 2, 2026 Last year, the authors of this post, David Elstone and Russ Taylor, set the record straight in response to claims by the US Lumber Coalition (USLC) that misrepresented the Canadian forest industry and its softwood lumber exports to the US market. Our previous responses to the USLC’s claims are summarized at the end of this post.   We find ourselves once again...

An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, January 14, 2026 British Columbia’s provincial crown timber harvest data for the complete-year 2025 shows the harvest slipped by 2% to 32 million cubic metres (excluding waste). It’s a result that disappoints when stacked up against the Premier’s mandate letter to the Minister of Forests to increase the provincial harvest to a target of 45 million cubic metres, a commitment made just over a year ago.   While the overall harvest performance for last...

An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, December 2, 2025 By David Elstone, RPF, GDBA - Spar Tree Group/View From The Stump & Jim Girvan, RPF, MBA - Associate, Indstrial Forestry Service Ltd. A recent article in the Business In Vancouver (BIV) makes serious allegations into the process used by the province’s Provincial Chief Forester to determine the allowable annual cut (AAC), claiming the “BC timber harvest is vastly overestimated.” The BIV article, written by journalist Stefan Labbé...