On Nov. 21, Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) founder and lower Sunshine Coast resident Ross Muirhead was one of 19 recipients of West Coast Environmental Law’s (WCEL) 2024 Andrew Thompson Awards.
That honour, named for Dr. Andrew Thompson one of WCEL’s first directors, was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding lifetime contributions to environmental protection and sustainability through law in B.C.
Asked about the significance of this honour, Muirhead said, “It means that our organization is doing effective conservation work, that our efforts are getting results in actually protecting at-risk forest ecosystems and that we are building relationships with the original stewards of this land, the Squamish, and to the west the shíshálh, Nations.
