The entire Okanogan region and many bordering it are in the exact same boat.
It's hard to believe how bad it is until you get into it. In the area between Lumby and Kelowna, I clocked 21 kliks with every Riparian area, seeps, ponds, streams, small lakes, and streams that had lots of water in them previous to the logging, now nothing more than a barren desert. One huge wasteland, sitting dormant for over a decade, at least ten kliks wide. That works out to 200 sq kliks in one huge clearcut. Bone dry, everything dead, other than some grass planted by the Cattleman's Association? This was a thriving ecosystem, and now the creeks, which used to run clear, are stained by tanen and often muddy after even a small rain, because there is nothing left to hold back the rainwater.
It wasn't that long ago, where it took ten men to do what one machine does now.
Where is the real economic benefit to the region or the province, following such an unsustainable harvest?