By Ben Parfitt – The Tyee
Few communities in British Columbia have been hit as hard by the declining fortunes of the forest industry as Mackenzie.
The town was built by forest companies in the 1960s. At the height of the boom it was home to two pulp mills, a paper mill, a handful of sawmills and a specialty mill that processed rejected lumber pieces from sawmills into higher-value products.
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