BC forests, three records, one timeline.

Choose a story. Harvest: every 11 by 13 km square rises with the share cut since 1900. Fire: every mapped fire since 1917 burns in its year and stays as a scar. Satellite: what the satellite saw lost since 2001. Press play, or pick a chapter.

2025
Harvested since 1900, ha0
Cut that year, ha0
Planted that year, ha0
Burned that year, ha0
Satellite: tree cover lost, ha0
Old forest in that cutn/a
Each column: one square, what happened next
  • Cut in the last three years
  • Planted
  • Cut, not recorded as planted
Height: share of the square harvested. Old forest: stands over 140 years when cut. Point at a column. Where the century's cut came from

CutPlantedBurnedSatellite era

Two records and a fire map, one forest

Reading the records...

Harvest record
RESULTS openings, Province of British Columbia: the gross area of each logging or salvage opening, by the year its disturbance started.
Satellite tree cover loss
Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA via Global Forest Watch: canopy over 30% removed at the scale of a Landsat pixel, about 30 m, whatever the cause: harvest, fire, disease or storm.
Area burned
BC Wildfire Service: the mapped size of every fire over 10 ha, unburned islands and open ground inside the line included.

For information only, from public records. Not an engineering, site or investment assessment.