Wildsight news : Forests

Public pressure pushed BC to defer the sale of most of the logging blocks in Argonaut Creek, 100 kilometres northeast of Revelstoke in the Northern Selkirk mountains. But we're not done yet. There’s still logging planned for three remaining cutblocks, or about 63 hectares of old growth forest.

After significant public pressure, the B.C. government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales (BCTS) have committed to pause logging and road-building in a remote old growth valley north of Revelstoke, which is critical habitat for the North…

It started as an expedition to track down the elusive mountain caribou. David Moskowitz - renowned photographer, writer and wildlife tracker - had already written about the disappearing species a few times, but had never encountered them in the wild.

Save Argonaut Creek from old growth logging