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Forestry Facts — Did You Know?
- B.C. planted its five billionth tree in 2002.
- The banks of spawning and fish-bearing streams are protected
by no-harvest zones.
- The first lumber sawn in B.C. were floor planks for a
Vancouver Island dairy farm.
- B.C.’s first pulp mill was built in 1894 at Port Alberni.
- More than half of B.C.’s old growth forests are protected in
parks or otherwise off-limits to harvesting.
- An average log truck can haul more than 38 metric tonnes of
timber, or 10,000 board feet. That’s enough wood to build a
small house.
