Audit finds B.C.’s forest management hurt by flawed data without clear methodology

VICTORIA — An audit has found that British Columbia’s government did not have a clear method for calculating the carbon being stored or released in provincial forests, which undermined the credibility in reporting from the Forests Ministry.
The Office of the Auditor General of B.C. says in the report that defined methodologies to calculate forest carbon projections were not used for decisions such as the determining annual allowable timber cutting.The audit found that staff did devel