Almost 10,000 forestry sector jobs have been lost in the province of British Columbia in just this last year alone.

The Vancouver Sun surveyed all the forestry companies in British Columbia that reported a layoff since January 2007. The results show that 34 mills are down either permanently or indefinitely. Twenty-three have curtailed shifts or introduced job-sharing. The cost in jobs lost, both permanent and temporary, has climbed to 9,597.

Full Results, from the Vancouver Sun:

NORTHERN INTERIOR

Fort Nelson: Canfor Polarboard OSB mill to close indefinitely this summer - 235 jobs

Fort St. James: Pope & Talbot (indefinite) - 272 jobs.

Stuart Lake Lumber (indefinite) - 100 jobs

Chetwynd: Canfor sawmill (indefinite) - 188 jobs

Terrace: West Fraser sawmill (indefinite) - 80 jobs

Mackenzie: AbitibiBowater 2 sawmills, 1 paper mill - 550 jobs

Prince George: Winton Global (indefinite) - 220 jobs

McBride: McBride Forest Industries veneer mill - 120 jobs

SOUTH COAST

Metro Vancouver:

Western Forest Products sawmill - 279 jobs

Fraser Pulp Chips - 45 jobs

Canfor Panel & Fibre - 126 jobs

Interfor sawmill - 110 jobs

Port Alberni: WFP planer (indefinite) - 21 jobs

Campbell River: TimberWest sawmill - 257 jobs

SOUTHERN INTERIOR

Williams Lake-100 Mile House: Tolko

Industries four sawmills (temporary) - 1,100 jobs

Kamloops: Weyerhaeuser sawmill - 196 jobs

Lytton: Lytton Lumber - 55 jobs

Canoe: Federated Co-Operatives (indefinite) - 160 jobs

Armstrong: Tolko plywood plant and veneer plant (temporary) - 300 jobs

Salmon Arm: Coe Newnes McGehee equipment supplier (indefinite) - 30 jobs

Enderby: North Okanagan Cedar - 28 jobs

Kelowna: Tolko Plywood Division - 151 jobs

OKANAGAN FALLS:

Weyerhaeuser sawmill - 224 jobs

TSW Laminating - 15 jobs

MIDWAY:

Pope & Talbot sawmill (indefinite) - 118 jobs

Midway Forest Products (indefinite) - 85 jobs

Grand Forks: Pope & Talbot sawmill (indefinite) - 288 jobs

Castelgar: Pope & Talbot sawmill (indefinite) - 362 jobs

CRANBROOK:

Tembec planer (until Oct.) - 40 jobs

Galloway Lumber (indefinite) - 150 jobs

Adams Lake: Interfor sawmill, being re-evaluated week by week - 250 jobs

SHIFT REDUCTIONS

- Feb. 15/08: West Fraser Timber's Pacific Inland Resources mill at Smithers curtails graveyard shift - 25 jobs

- Feb. 15/08: West Fraser Timber's 100 Mile House sawmill. Indefinite curtailment of graveyard shift - 51 jobs

- Feb. 1/08: Tembec reduces work week; implements work-share program at Elko, Canal Flats sawmills and Cranbrook fingerjoint mill - 400 workers lose a day a week, 80 job equivalents

- Jan. 10/07: West Fraser Timber's Houston sawmill indefinitely curtails graveyard shift - 70 workers

- Dec. 28/07: Springer Creek Forest Products, Slocan, cuts two shifts to one - 85 jobs

- Dec. 21/07: Fingerjoint manufacturer East Fraser Fiber indefinitely drops a shift at Mackenzie - 45 jobs, and in Quesnel, 8 jobs

- Dec. 5/07: Hampton Affiliates to cut production by 40 per cent for both Babine Forest Products and Decker Lake Forest Products at Burns Lake effective Jan 2. - 300 workers on three days, receive EI benefits 2 days a week; 120 job-equivalents

- Nov. 28/07: Canfor to move from three shifts to two at Rustad, Clear Lake, Polar, and Mackenzie sawmills - 300 jobs

- Oct. 25/07: Apollo Forest Products, Fort St. James sawmill on four-day work week, planer on 3-day work week indefinitely - 24 job equivalents

- Oct. 22/07: Tolko cuts from three shifts to two at Creekside Division, Williams Lake and Lavington Planer Division, Lavington - 75 jobs

- Sept. 04/07: Tolko to move from three to two shifts at Armstrong - 20 jobs

- July 27/07: Canfor to operate only one production facility at Mackenzie mill - 130 jobs

- July 6/07: Winton Global Prince George cuts from three shifts to two - 78 jobs

- June 15/07: Tembec to indefinitely shut down third shift at Elko sawmill, Cranbrook planer mill and second shift at Cranbrook fingerjoint. Most employees are relocated within the company - 21 jobs

- May 22/07: Tolko's Nicola Valley Division in Merritt moves from three shifts to two until market fundamentals improve - 22 jobs.

- January/07: Louisiana-Pacific curtails graveyard shift at its Golden plywood and laminated lumber plant - 75 jobs.

TOTAL: 1,229 jobs

THE IMPACT ON LOGGERS

A selected sampling in four communities where companies have failed or shut down sawmills shows:

- 650 loggers are expected to be out of work as a result of the Mackenzie and Fort Nelson mill closures.

- 500 loggers are out of work as a result of the failure of two major two contracting businesses in the Cowichan Valley.

- 250 loggers are out of work in the West Kootenay as a result of the Pope & Talbot insolvency.

Total: 1,400

WOOD RE-MANUFACTURERS

Layoffs, curtailed shifts and indefinite closures:

- Metro Vancouver: 34 companies, 356 jobs.

- Vanderhoof: one company closes. 90 jobs.

- Okanagan: eight companies, 119 jobs.

- Vancouver Island: 15 companies, 242 jobs.

- Kootenays: one company, six jobs.

Total: 59 companies, 813 jobs

TOTAL: 9,597 jobs

Read the story: 10,000 forestry jobs gone in past year - Sawmills are shutting down across the province -- some sporadically, some for good. The situation isn't likely to improve any time soon