Guest column: Keeping more of Vancouver Island's forest value at home
The proposal would expand engineered wood, prefabricated components and finished products to keep more forest value and skilled jobs on Vancouver Island, officials said.
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Guest column: Keeping more of Vancouver Island's forest value at home
Vancouver Island has supplied British Columbia with world-class timber for generations, yet too much of the economic value created from our forests leaves the Island along with the logs rather than generating jobs, investment, and long-term prosperity in the communities where those trees are grown. For generations, forestry has shaped North Cowichan’s economy, workforce, and identity. It has provided family-supporting jobs, sustained local busin…
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