Consequences To Old Growth Forest Policy Are Real
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, September 18, 2023 Job losses and reductions in work have been confirmed as real...
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David Elstone
- Aug 7
- 2 min
Time To Start Managing Forests For The Future
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, August 7, 2023 This post is a comment about forestry, so please bear with my preamble….Last...
David Elstone
- Jul 24
- 2 min
BC’s Downtime List Keeps Growing
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, July 24, 2023 (Table below updated Aug 4, 2023) (This post is an updated version of an...
David Elstone
- Jun 2
- 7 min
A Prosperous And Successful Province Needs Direction
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, June 2, 2023 (A version of the following blog post was originally published as an article in...
David Elstone
- May 1
- 1 min
An Industry in Transition......THERE IS NO GOING BACK!
The following file is a bullet point summary of a presentation that I gave at the BC Council of Forest Industries (COFI) conference in...
David Elstone
- Apr 6
- 6 min
Status Update On Indigenous Owned Forest Tenure
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, April 6, 2023 (A version of the following blog post was originally published as an article...
David Elstone
- Mar 6
- 3 min
Where’s The Debate?
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, March 5, 2023. (A version of the following blog post was originally published as an article...
David Elstone
- Feb 27
- 5 min
For The Record…On BC Forestry
The following is a response to an article written by Ted Clarke - “More mill closures inevitable as BC forest industry crisis deepens”,...
David Elstone
- Jan 30
- 7 min
What The Paradigm Shift Looks Like
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, January 29, 2022 Last week’s announcement by Canfor to restructure its BC operations to...
David Elstone
- Jan 19
- 6 min
In Search Of A Narrative
(A version of the following blog post was originally published as an article in the View From The Stump newsletter, January 2023, under...
David Elstone
- Dec 7, 2022
- 6 min
Welcome To The Lumber Super Cycle(s)
(A version of the following blog post was originally published as an article in the View From The Stump newsletter, November 2022, under...
David Elstone
- Oct 24, 2022
- 4 min
Not A Bullet Dodged - Insights From The BC NDP Leadership Race
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, October 23, 2022 Some may believe that the British Columbia forest industry dodged a bullet...
David Elstone
- Oct 12, 2022
- 6 min
A Crisis With Solutions In Plain Sight
The BC Pulp & Paper Sector: A Crisis With Solutions In Plain Sight
David Elstone
- Sep 15, 2022
- 5 min
Jobs Come From Trees
An Editorial Opinion – Right From The Stump, September 15, 2022 (A version of the following blog post was originally published as an...
David Elstone
- Apr 27, 2022
- 3 min
British Columbia Forestry Jobs – What It Takes To Cut A Tree
Too often, when it comes to reductions in timber harvest the focus is on the headline number of direct job losses, glossing over what that m
David Elstone
- Apr 8, 2022
- 7 min
Adding Up The Numbers On BC Old Growth Deferrals
The Province’s old growth deferral initiative has been one of the most impactful shifts in forest policy in decades...
David Elstone
- Mar 24, 2022
- 3 min
What’s Your Forestry Story?
British Columbia’s forest industry is losing a battle against those who would prefer the sector be reduced to a small cottage industry.
David Elstone
- Mar 9, 2022
- 6 min
What The BC Government Thinks About Forestry
To be honest, looking at a provincial government budget in most any year can be boring; however, this year’s budget is different with so muc
David Elstone
- Dec 14, 2021
- 10 min
Recipe for Gridlock
Potentially 45,000 jobs lost and 50% reduction in BC’s timber harvest if the NDP government does not alter its course! An Editorial...
David Elstone
- Dec 5, 2021
- 1 min
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