New carbon pricing fuels 600% revenue surge for B.C. community forest: Cheakamus Community Forest saw carbon credit sales spike six-fold in 2025, a surge it attributes to B.C.'s new industrial pollution laws.

The article describes how the Cheakamus Community Forest in British Columbia, managed by the Lil'wat and Squamish nations, uses revenue from industrial carbon credits to prioritize forest health and biodiversity over timber volume while reducing wildfire risk. Topics include carbon pricing under B.C.'s output-based system, forest thinning that maintains carbon pools; and research by UBC ecologist Susan Simard on fuel load reduction.