Environmentalists are ready to
give up on negotiations over the acclaimed Great Bear Rainforest conservation
agreement, saying the forest industry is not moving quickly enough to achieve
ecological and economic goals in the world’s largest temperate rainforest.
The forest industry says a final
agreement is achievable and that the industry has come a long way toward
getting there. It’s proving difficult, but not impossible, to develop models
that reach the conservation goals, given the restraints logging is now under.
