Author: Eddie Petryshen

Send a letter: Get southern mountain caribou the protection they need

March 10, 2025 by Eddie Petryshen

In the last 20 years, over 310,000 hectares of deep-snow caribou habitat have been logged in B.C, destroying many of the old and mature forests that are essential to the survival of southern mountain caribou herds.

Overcut: The crisis facing B.C.’s forests and the possible futures before us

February 19, 2025 by Eddie Petryshen

The question we’re collectively faced with today is: do we allow business-as-usual to continue, or do we demand change? Depending on how we answer that question, we will arrive at one of two possible futures.

Environment Canada put on notice for 10-year delay in caribou protections

January 22, 2025 by Eddie Petryshen

Environmental groups, including Wildsight, have sent an open letter to the ECCC today calling on the Ministry to complete critical habitat mapping for caribou that's 10 years overdue.

B.C. logging practices ‘chipping’ away at caribou survival

December 17, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

Wilderness Committee and Wildsight have discovered legislative loopholes that enable extensive logging in critical southern mountain caribou habitat in B.C.

B.C. mountain caribou recovery plan

September 3, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

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.

Why incentivizing post-wildfire salvage logging is the wrong path

August 15, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

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

July 29, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

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

July 25, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

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

June 27, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

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

June 17, 2024 by Eddie Petryshen

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.