B.C. mountain caribou recovery plan
The B.C. mountain caribou recovery plan, legislated in 2007, protects more than 2.2 million hectares (5.4 million acres or 95% of high-suitability winter habitat) from logging and associated road building.
Author: Eddie Petryshen
Why incentivizing post-wildfire salvage logging is the wrong path
With fall around the corner and fresh incentives from the B.C. government, forestry companies will be starting to plan their post-wildfire salvage operations — with potentially dire consequences for species and ecosystems.
A walk through the Seymour River Valley
Photographer Bailey Repp documents what's a stake in the wild and remote forests of the upper Seymour River Valley, where logging proposals threaten old forests and core caribou habitat.
New Kootenay Lake cut level highlights an industry at odds with provincial promises
The decision reveals an industry in which timber-centric thinking still prevails — and points to a problematic disconnect between our provincial leaders’ promises, and the day-to-day decisions being made on the ground.
Give mountain caribou a fighting chance
Thousands of hectares of B.C.’s Inland Temperate Rainforest are currently slated for logging, including over 600 hectares in the Seymour River watershed considered to be core habitat for the Columbia North herd.
Caribou habitat is under threat in the Seymour River watershed … again
A new batch of clearcut proposals in the Seymour River watershed threaten over 600 hectares of endangered woodland caribou habitat, old growth forests and remnant patches of our Inland Temperate Rainforest.
What a flight over B.C.’s North Columbia Mountains tells us about the dire state of caribou habitat
Our plane hovers at 9,000 feet above the massive glaciers of British Columbia’s northern Monashee Mountains. It’s hot and cramped in this small, aluminium sky-box, which is currently being pushed around by rough summer winds.
Gone before you know it
The old growth mysteries we risk losing before we realize they exist.
United for old growth
Join us at a rally for old growth on the provincial day of action, Sept 28th.
In Nelson at MLA Brittny Anderson's office or in Revelstoke.
Speak up to reduce the cut: Kootenay Lake logging review
If you fly over British Columbia, the most acute problem affecting our forests becomes alarmingly clear; it’s not just Fairy Creek, old growth logging or clearcutting, it's the astonishing rate of logging that is happening due to the…