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TJ Watts of Ancient Forest Alliance uses before-and-after photographs to illustrate the destructiveness of old-growth logging in British Columbia.
It’s the fiercest opposition to logging in British Columbia since 1993, when activists blocked fellers from clearcutting Clayoquot Sound, also on Vancouver Island, in a five-month standoff known ...
But Matthew Nefstead, an attorney based in Victoria, on behalf of three logging opponents filed another complaint in the Supreme Court of British Columbia last week. He called out police actions ...
Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging ...
A protest over old growth forests is shaping up to be B.C.’s largest act of civil disobedience over logging in decades. Here’s what’s at stake ...
British Columbia has been embroiled in conflict over old-growth logging for decades, and the protests that started in Fairy Creek in 2020 led to one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience ...
A process is underway in British Columbia to temporarily defer logging in priority old-growth forests, allowing time for the government to work with First Nations to decide how they should be ...
"In British Columbia and this country, it is a huge priority," said Jim Shepherd, CEO of Slocan Forest Products, which exported more than 1 billion board feet of interior B.C. lumber to the United ...
British Columbia's old-growth trees are major carbon sinks and pillars of a vibrant forest ecosystem. But as the province struggles to achieve its emission targets, only 3% of the big trees are ...
Amid an international dispute, British Columbia’s government announced ... After Durkan’s protests, B.C. officials last summer put future logging plans on hold. On Wednesday, they committed ...
SEATTLE (CN) – British Columbia will stop logging in the headwaters of the Skagit River due to environmental concerns, the province’s government announced Wednesday. All timber sales in the area’s ...