Sixty-five years of BC harvest data tell one story: the province’s forest carbon debt is still open, second-growth recovery has not caught up, and old growth is being targeted because there is very little else left to cut.

This paper examines how compounding uncertainty in forest management may be moving through harvest allowances, carbon credits, EPDs, EC3 data, and green building claims with more precision than the underlying field evidence can support. Drawing from published science, field observation, and a 400-kilometre survey corridor in interior British Columbia, it asks whether forest carbon accounting has been measuring from the original standard, or copying from assumptions already in