Anthony Britneff: Minister's forest panel should embrace these reforms

For the second year running, British Columbians are getting a taste of what the “new normal” means — air so choked with the smoke of burning forest fires that it drives us to stay indoors.
But what many of us may fail to appreciate is what the new normal means for our forests and the management challenges lying ahead.
How have ferocious fires, increased insect attacks, anomalous disease outbreaks and all the heightened logging activities in response to such events diminished ou