The Forest Practices Code bans clearcut logging in areas where there is a high likelihood of landslides. There are 5 classes of landslide hazard, with the "Class 5" designation as the highest. These areas generally are on greater than 70% steep slopes, which usually show evidence of instability such as natural landslide scars.

But under the Code, forest companies continue to engage in practices that will likely cause future landslides:

A substantial portion of clearcutting is being approved on high-risk (Class 5) slopes.⁴⁵

In fact, in one Forest Development Plan over 90% of the cutblocks were located in areas classified as having a 'high likelihood of landslides,' yet clearcutting was still proposed as the approved harvesting method.⁴⁶

Landslide debris caused by logging on slopes clogs the streams, while soil erosion further devastates the terrain.

In 1994, the B.C. government said, "We're going to harvest in an ecologically viable way, using new harvesting techniques, including selective logging, more aerial logging, more long-line logging...We're also going to hire a lot of our forestry workers to go out and repair the mess that's already there -- to take out old logging roads and replant, to repair the erosion, to fix up the damaged spawning streams."⁴⁷

Instead, "the mess that's already there" is growing.