Webinar: Save forests; safe communities
Missed our webinar with Dr. Peter Wood? Watch it now, and get informed on how BC’s forestry industry needs a paradigm shift to better protect our communities agains the affects of climate change:
Missed our webinar with Dr. Peter Wood? Watch it now, and get informed on how BC’s forestry industry needs a paradigm shift to better protect our communities agains the affects of climate change:
Deep in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Louisiana Pacific (LP) is building a new road and is about to log important habitat for endangered mountain caribou. Multiple mountain caribou sightings in and adjacent to planned cut-blocks have been reported to the provincial government. Despite sightings of the endangered caribou, Louisiana Pacific is in the … Continued
Landslides. Floods. Wildfires. They come with a vengeance, sweeping away or burning up communities. When they’re happening, they seem inevitable. But what if these events weren’t inevitable? What if the solution was closer than we think? To get to the root of these problems, we need to look to the trees. The provincial government released … Continued
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 old growth forests, we have to collectively ask ourselves: how did we get to this … Continued
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 protect old growth. The group is known as Old Growth Revylution and they’ve set up … Continued
By Lindsay Cuff Director, Wildsight Regional Council “A tree is the slow explosion of a seed.” ~Bruno Munari My eight-year-old son and I pull up to the access gate on the Forest Service Road (FSR) just off Pacific Marine Rd. One of the forest defenders greets us and we tell her we’re planning to stay … Continued
Senior Biologist and conservation guru Marcy Mahr shared with us the extent of the Western Toads awesomeness! Tune in to see why these creatures are so important for the health of our ecosystem (and cool to boot) and how Marcy, others and even you can be ‘Toad Angels!’ Wildsight Revelstoke is working on a long … Continued
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 diameter, are being auctioned off and logged by BC’s own provincial timber agency, BC Timber Sales (BCTS). … Continued
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 my eyes all the way to the top, imagining the years and history that it … Continued
We challenge you to watch this workshop and not feel a deeper sense of connection to nature on your next walk in the woods of Revelstoke… Ethnobotanist and Herbalist Christy Shaw served up a slice of botanical magic and it’s a must watch if you want to know more about the history and traditional uses … Continued