Letter to the Editor – Coast Reporter SCRD residents should be informed that the Chapman Creek Drinking Watershed is currently getting hit hard by clearcut logging. Surespan of North Vancouver holds private lands in the watershed and once they completed the logging of a block in June 2016 (where a Read more…
November 5, 2016 – Honourable Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. In a recent letter to your office, copied to local papers on the Sunshine Coast, Glen Bonderud, president of the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF), makes some misleading, deceptive remarks regarding the proposed expansion of Read more…
For Immediate Release November 13, 2016 (Directions – Map At Bottom of Page) Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) has come across a large stand of Western Red Cedars on the lower elevation Elphinstone slopes. One of the main factors that makes it rare is that there’s no evidence in this stand Read more…
With heavy hearts we ventured off the B & K Rd, and up the re-activated forest service road to view the clearcut destruction of the former ‘Twist & Shout Forest’, Sunshine Coast, BC. Here the timber industry goes again “killing the goose that laid the golden egg”. The replacement forest Read more…
October 8, 2016 – Roberts Creek BC: At yesterday’s BC Supreme Court hearing (in Vancouver, BC), the judge granted Peninsula Logging a 2nd injunction that essentially allows for the completion of logging in the ‘Twist and Shout Forest’ (cutblock A87125) within the proposed Mt Elphinstone park expansion area. While we Read more…
Mt. Elphinstone Logging Protest SMALL VICTORY IN COURT On September 27th, the Supreme Court of B.C. dismissed Peninsula Logging’s application to extend the Injunction against protestors who erected a blockade leading to BCTS A87125 cutblock. The Judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to justify the extension of the Injunction Read more…