The BC NDP government’s budget released this week is a significant move to minimize disruption to the status quo of old-growth forest liquidation by timber companies, as it lacks the critically important funding needed to support First Nations old-growth protection initiatives at the most critical time – at a time when the province is engaging First Nations communities on developing major new policies and legislation to manage old-growth forests across BC, including key logging deferrals and potential areas to protect or not to protect.