摘要：For two decades, British Columbia's (BC's) forest economy has been widely characterized by 'crossroads' and 'war in the woods' metaphors. The crossroads metaphor reflects on a restructuring from a mass production, cost-minimizing conunodity system based on high quality first growth timber to a more flexible, value maximizing and product-differentiated system based on poorer quality, increasingly second growth timber. The war in the woods metaphor refers to three distinct disputes involving trade, the environment and Aboriginal Peoples. In general tenns, these disputes feature conflicts among newly emergent neo-liberaI, envirorunental and aboriginal values and between these values and those in place for a remapping of forest rights and use. The remapping implies that the non-industrial values of forests, in contrast to the past, be given greater priority, even pre-eminence, in the future.
