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Deny license transfer A17007

msmk89 — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:43:00 +0000

The BC government is receiving public comment until Wednesday, March 3rd on a proposed forest license transfer in the Forest Nelson Timber Supply Area from Canfor to Peak Renewables. The transfer will enable the creation of a pellet plant that will use as its “feedstock” boreal forest that has never been logged before. There has been no official announcement from the BC government that this…

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We’re Seeing Red

msmk89 — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:51:47 +0000

“They are the first tools of their kind made by the public for the public,” explains Conservation North’s outreach coordinator Jenn Matthews. “The cumulative impacts of industrial forestry and other forms of land conversion, such as agriculture and road development, have never been displayed for public view before now, despite the fact that the vast majority are occurring on public lands.

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Moratorium on primary forest logging in the PG TSA now

msmk89 — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:56:07 +0000

Prince George, BC – A northern conservation group is calling for a moratorium on primary forest logging in the Prince George Timber Supply Area following the release of an investigative report by the Forest Practices Board (‘the Board’). The Board concluded that biodiversity is at high risk in the vast majority of landscape units within the District and has recommended that old growth be promptly…

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BCTS Suspends Logging Plans

msmk89 — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 03:04:59 +0000

Following massive public backlash, BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has suspended plans to log endangered caribou habitat in an area of rainforest north of Revelstoke, BC. BCTS had planned to auction off 11 cutblocks — an area totalling 276 hectares — and build 10 more kilometres of road into deep-snow mountain caribou habitat. As reported in the Narwhal, this is on hold thanks to the work of Wildsight…

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BC Government Ignores Science in their Old Growth Announcement

msmk89 — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 02:20:10 +0000

Prince George, BC – Northern BCers are unimpressed by the government’s announcement on old growth forests last week. The province announced nine general locations where they will temporarily defer logging of old growth. “None of the temporary area deferrals are in our endangered northern rainforests. In other words, they seem to have completely ignored the science,” explains Jenn Matthews of…

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Has Anything Changed

msmk89 — Wed, 08 May 2019 21:10:35 +0000

This article was originally published in March 2014. It is republished here with permission. By Peter Ewart It is an outrageous amount. According to a document from the Ministry of Forests that was recently brought to light in the provincial legislature (1), for the five years between 2008 – 2013, the forest company giants, Canfor and West Fraser, overcut 928,000 cubic metres of non-pine…

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