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Learn more during National Forest Week

What part of the tree do you eat when you have some ketchup? Find out with our fun forest trivia and other articles prepared specially for National Forest Week. Read more.

New B.C. Chief Forester to be based in Prince George

PRINCE GEORGE – Jim Snetsinger will be B.C.’s new chief forester, and the first to be based at the University of Northern British Columbia, Forests Minister Michael de Jong announced today. Read more

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Forestry Facts — Did You Know?

• The people of B.C. own 95% of B.C.’s forests.
• Explorer Captain Cook was the first European to make use of B.C.’s forest products. Sailing masts were fashioned from the tallest Douglas firs.
• B.C. lumber was used for trestles, ties and bridges on the Canadian Pacific Railway.
• B.C.’s first sawmill was built in 1847 at Esquimalt Harbour.
• B.C. exports $450 worth of forest products every second. That’s more than $14 billion every year.
• B.C.’s forests cover an area the size of California and Washington State combined.
• More than 80 per cent of B.C.’s forests have never been harvested. That’s 50 million hectares of pristine forest.