Under the CSA’s current certification regime, the logging of B.C. forests such as hotly contested regions of old-growth on southwest Vancouver Island would be deemed sustainable — including unprotected areas of the Fairy Creek watershed, the epicentre of activist logging blockades for close to a year.
“You could call it a process standard, not a performance standard,” he said.
Canada has 13 million hectares of forest certified to the CSA standard, two million of which are in B.C.