Sierra Club BC is asking BC Timber Sales to hold off auctioning cutblock A87125 in the highly fragmented landscape near Elphinstone Provincial Park. A recent Sierra Club BC analysis of remaining intact forests shows this area among those with the highest levels of ecological risk and very little old-growth left on the south coast, and is the most impacted dry-forest area as a result of logging and development, increasingly combined with climate impacts like extended drought conditions. The proposed cutblock is 60% Douglas Fir forest cover. Permitting logging between BC Parks land parcels further fragments the landscape beyond the point of no return.
Sierra Club BC is asking BC Timber Sales to hold off auctioning cutblock A87125 in the highly fragmented landscape near Elphinstone Provincial Park. A recent Sierra Club BC analysis of remaining intact forests shows this area among those with the highest levels of ecological risk and very little old-growth left on the south coast, and is the most impacted dry-forest area as a result of logging and development, increasingly combined with climate impacts like extended drought conditions. The proposed cutblock is 60% Douglas Fir forest cover. Permitting logging between BC Parks land parcels further fragments the landscape beyond the point of no return.
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