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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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Climate change is a natural process.
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Human activity contributes to rapid climate change.
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Rapid climate change will:
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• Make our forests more vulnerable to insects and disease.
• Create more wildfires
and storms.
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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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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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To increase carbon storage:
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• Reduce the amount of forests that are not replanted once harvested.
• Plant trees where they don’t presently grow.
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Wood stores carbon for decades.
Wood is renewable, recyclable and biodegradable.
Wood uses the energy of the sun to grow.
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Adapting to climate change
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