The Need to Reform BC’s Private Managed Forest Land Act (Benoit et al. 2019)

TITLE: The Need to Reform BC’s Private Managed Forest Land Act

AUTHOR: Emilie Benoit (law student), Lola Churchman (Researcher), and Calvin Sandborn, QC (Supervisor)

DATE: 2019

DESCRIPTION: Environmental Law Clinic report on privately held forest lands in BC.

EXTRACT: “This report outlines the inadequacies of British Columbia’s Private Managed Forest Land Act (PMFLA) and offers suggestions for law reform. Part 1 is an overview of the PMFLA, Part 2 offers specific examples of how logging on private managed forest land is causing harm to communities across BC, and Part 3 proposes eight recommendations for law reform…”

ACCESS: Free online access here

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