The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 B.C. cautiously opens tree-planting season with new coronavirus rules some say won’t protect remote communities https://thenarwhal.ca/coronavirus-bc-opens-tree-planting-season-new-rules-wont-protect-remote-communities/ Sat, 25 Apr 2020 01:34:46 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=18342 Wildfire, pine beetle and industrial logging have left some areas of the province vulnerable to floods and in need of trees. But the deployment of 5,000 workers has both contractors and First Nations scrambling to ensure the tree-planting season won’t do more harm than good Ben Parfitt News climate change coronavirus forestry Tree planting BC Coronavirus