Author: Eddie Petryshen

B.C. allows logging in critical habitat of one of the province’s sole recovering caribou herds. [The Narwhal]

March 30, 2022 by Eddie Petryshen

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

December 3, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

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

August 19, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

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

July 28, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

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

June 21, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

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?

June 17, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

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

May 26, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

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.

Private land logging: Impacts on Elk Valley ecosystem

May 25, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

Ben Collison was born and raised in the Kootenays, and is currently a masters student at Dalhousie University. As part of his masters degree, Ben opted to study private land logging and its impacts on this place where he spent…

Communities are paying the price for private land logging

March 25, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

A grassroots effort made provincial news recently, when a successful crowdfunding campaign garnered $400,000 to buy a 40-hectare piece of privately-owned land near Nelson under threat of logging. This huge win in Cottonwood Lake, a locally cherished…

Old growth and forestry jobs in steep decline

February 19, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

The numbers are staggering; 500 square kilometres of old growth forests are logged every year in BC. Many of these forests in places like the Coastal or Inland Temperate Rainforests are irreplaceable because they have taken hundreds, if not thousands…