Read in the Coast Reporter …Looking at some of the messaging and numbers in the published in Sunshine Coast Community Forest’s 2021 Annual Report I have several concerns on how they’re being framed. For example, it reads “This year saw record log pricing and 18 500 m³ of logs all Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter …In late March, Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) invited Nation hiwus Calvin Craigan, a hereditary and former elected chief, to visit the cutblock to assess the area. ELF had expressed concerns that the location may be of archaeological significance. Craigan supported that view.
Read in the Coast Reporter …“Based on our site visits to EW24 and review of its ecological assessment, we are stating that SCCF is planning on logging an old-growth forest,” ELF spokesperson Ross Muirhead wrote. The release states that EW24 is part of the disappearing Coastal Western Hemlock very dry Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter Geotechnical analysis to ensure protection of downstream areas before more logging happens in the Trout Lake area may come, one way or another. It may result from tenure holder Sunshine Coast Community Forest’s (SCCF) planning for cutting permits or via a legal challenge from Elphinstone Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter There were more questions than answers at the Feb. 17 Sunshine Coast Natural Resource District Timber Supply Review public information session. The online event was hosted by a handful of Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD) staff to explain and Read more…
Read in the Coast Reporter Work by the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) “may have been the tipping point” for a Nov. 15, 2021 landslide that affected Burnett Creek and the Sechelt-Dakota forest service road. That is according to a report prepared by the Ministry of Forests’ Sunshine Coast District Read more…