Learn how climate change is affecting our forests and how our forests and the wood products we produce from our forests hold the key to mitigating the effects of climate change.

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2. Climate change
is a natural process.
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3. Human activity
contributes to rapid
climate change.
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6. Rapid climate change will:
• Make our forests
more vulnerable to
insects and disease.
• Create more wildfires
and storms.
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7. Frequent tending
and fertilizing helps
our forests grow
more quickly.
Removing dead
trees can reduce the
threat of wildfires,
insects and disease.
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8. B.C. has 60 million
hectares of trees.
Canada has 10%
of the world’s forests.
We harvest less than
one percent of our
trees each year.
We plant half a
billion trees each
year.
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9. To increase carbon storage:
• Reduce the amount of
forests that are not
replanted once
harvested.
• Plant trees where they
don’t presently grow.
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10. Wood stores carbon
for decades.
Wood is renewable,
recyclable and
biodegradable.
Wood uses the energy
of the sun to grow.
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14. Adapting to
climate change
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