Keeping it wild for wolverines
The first time I met a wolverine it was a bluebird day in the Purcell mountains. As I kick-turned my skis into another switchback that afternoon, I turned, and there she was.
Author: Eddie Petryshen
Locally cherished area set to be logged during nesting and migratory bird season
For years, many residents of the small hamlet of Argenta and the West Kootenay have campaigned for the inclusion of the Argenta face, an important landscape on Kootenay Lake that lies between Argenta and Johnson’s Landing, into the Purcell…
New evidence shows logging and cutting permits in proposed old growth deferral areas
Kimberley – B.C. groups are releasing new evidence of ongoing logging and pending cut permits in proposed old growth deferral areas in the province. Images and documentation can be accessed here and here. Conservation North, Sierra Club BC, Stand.earth…
B.C. allows logging in critical habitat of one of the province’s sole recovering caribou herds. [The Narwhal]
Satellite imagery reveals new cutblocks are ‘nibbling away’ at the critical habitat of the endangered Columbia North caribou herd, widely considered to be the Kootenay-area population with the highest chance of persisting in the long term.
Argonaut Creek taken off the chopping block
After significant pressure from Indigenous nations and the public, the BC government has agreed to defer an old growth valley north of Revelstoke that provides critical habitat for caribou. The B.C. government's own logging agency, BC Timber Sales…
Policy failures have forced citizens to put their bodies on the line for old growth
British Columbia markets itself as “supernatural BC” and yet we are one of the last jurisdictions in the world still logging irreplaceable old growth forests on public lands. As citizens across BC put their bodies on the line to protect…
Standing up for BC’s forgotten rainforest
On a bright and hot summer afternoon, on a dusty logging road near ancient giants, Splatsin First Nation Kukpi7 (Chief) Wayne Christian is conducting a ceremony to protect a group of Revelstoke locals putting their bodies on the line to…
Globally unique old growth falls as BC fails to act
Deep in the heart of BC’s Inland Temperate Rainforest, chainsaws are cutting irreplaceable and globally unique stands of ancient cedar-hemlock forests. The trees, which are hundreds and hundreds of years old and many one to two metres in…
A future for old growth?
Have you ever walked in a forest, dappled sunlight filtering in, and had the feeling of being dwarfed by a giant, towering tree? For me, there is nothing quite like standing at the base of an ancient tree and tracing…
Recovering caribou: A conversation with caribou expert Rob Serrouya
Dr. Rob Serrouya has spent his career studying caribou and the ecosystems which have supported caribou for millenia. But things are rapidly changing for caribou and the ecosystems that support these elusive critters.