(Vancouver) The BC government should spend a minimum of $118 million more per year for the next five years on research, reforestation and restoration efforts in pine beetle-attacked forests, regardless of any future funding it might receive from Ottawa, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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