A long-awaited downsizing in the B.C. Interior lumber sector because of a timber supply decrease from the pine beetle epidemic is expected to hit within three to five years, according to a new report on the impacts on the Interior's sawmills.
The special report - put together by a trio of B.C.-based consulting firms - forecasts that the decline in timber will results in the closure of 16 large primary sawmills by 2018 in the Interior.
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