Talk and Log: Wilderness Politics in British Columbia.

Abstract

D uring the Canadian centennia l year, school l ibraries across British Columbia received copies of This Is British Columbia and British Columbia: Challenge in Abundance-two illustrated tributes, courtesy of the BC government, to the riches of the province where there was 'Splendour Never Ending/ Within their pages lay the philosophical explanation for the next thirty years of conflict and paradox in the forests. Imprinted in our formative hearts were the superb photographs of wilderness by Beautiful BC photographers, while accompanying text informed our brains that we were assured of an enviable future full of abundance and chal lenge tha t British Columbia