An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, July 9, 2026 Five years after the Modernizing Forest Policy in BC paper signalled the province’s intention to address the “disparity” in stumpage rates among Woodlot Licences (WLs), Community Forest Agreements (CFAs), and First Nation Woodland Licences (FNWLs), the issue remains unresolved. The question should not simply be whether all these tenure types should use tabular rates; rather how British Columbia should fund transformational change in...

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...