Read in the Coast Reporter This paper reported on plans by Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF), to conduct research within the proposed Mt. Elphinstone Park expansion area in block EW19, directly adjacent to one of its three disconnected park parcels that currently total only 139ha. SCCF is claiming that the Read more…
A win for nature and our community! Part of a beautiful, mature native forest adjacent to the Mt. Elphinstone Provincial Park and inside it’s proposed expansion area, was slated for logging by Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF), a logging company 100% owned by the District of Sechelt, but has been Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) cancelled plans to log two east ts’uk̲w’um (Wilson Creek) cutblocks adjacent to a proposed Mt. Elphinstone Provincial Park expansion area, operations manager Warren Hansen told Coast Reporter on April 5. A day earlier, Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) stated in a Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) has questions it wants addressed at the BC Timber Sales’ (BCTS) Mount Elphinstone Watershed Assessment report public review session on April 6. The report authored by consulting firm Polar Geoscience and released March 9 by BCTS, is “a huge report with Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter …BCTS’s Joe Smith Creek cutblock, which it has slated for harvesting auction in July, is included in the review area. Concerns about environmental, groundwater drainage and slope stability issues that logging at that site could create have been identified by area residents and local forest Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter …Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) has reached out to the shíshálh Nation to ensure that they have the opportunity to document what may be culturally modified and wildlife trees within the cutblock before they are removed. Those included several instances of three red cedars growing together Read more…