In an August 15th newspaper story published by the Coast Reporter (the lower Sunshine Coast’s weekly newspaper) an article appeared entitled: “Behind the scenes of the harvest ofJoe Smith Creek cutblock”, a BC Timber Sales (BCTS) Blk TA052. The article quoted Mr. Sam Grill of OceanView Logging, the successful logging Read more…
Press release February 4 2025 – The Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF), a logging company 100% owned by the District of Sechelt, has a budget for public outreach that includes paid advertising in the local Coast Reporter newspaper. Over the course of the last 6 months (last two ads January Read more…
For the last two years Elphinstone Logging Focus been fighting to protect a regionally rare area of mature, native forest on the southern slope of Sunshine Coast’s Mt. Elphinstone above the community of Roberts Creek that we call the Water Protection Forest. We’ve used science, lobbying, a letter and postcard Read more…
The Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF), a logging company owned by the Dis- trict of Sechelt, has proceeded with yet more ecologically devastating clearcut logging of some of the best remaining mature forest in their Gray Creek Watershed tenure area – blocks AN15, AN03 and AN3A. SCCF claims to be Read more…
The B.C. government’s elk recovery program on the Sunshine Coast is largely a success story after elk were extirpated from the B.C. mainland in the early 1900s, however more needs to be done to protect this still vulnerable species. Studies by the B.C. Wildlife Branch show that elk and deer on Vancouver 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…