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Save Vancouver Island's Ancient Forests and Ban Raw Log Exports
The Wilderness Committee is working to save the remaining ancient forest on Vancouver Island, 73% of which has already been logged, and to ban raw log exports.
Band cries foul over land claims
Posted May 09, 2008, 01:57:16
The provincial government is in a conflict of interest because a company managing public pension plans has a 25 per cent interest in a forestry firm involved in a land-claim dispute with the Hupacasath First Nation, band chief councillor Judith Sayers charged yesterday.
Judith Lavoie
,Times Colonist
Friday, May 09, 2008
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Sell off: TimberWest puts 134,000 acres on the market
Posted May 09, 2008, 01:14:06
Vancouver Island’s largest private landowner has planted for sale signs in more than a dozen communities, with about 54,200 hectares (134,000 acres) on the block.
Gerard Young, Business Examiner: Vancouver Island edition - May 7, 2008
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Endangered owl symbolizes Interior park
Posted May 08, 2008, 03:33:18
Beaker, a five-year-old burrowing owl, an endangered species, is the poster bird for the proposed national park reserve and was in Victoria yesterday as environmental groups presented copies of a 19,000-signature pro-park petition to the province. Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Park proposal gets support from feathered friend
Posted May 08, 2008, 12:33:04
Beaker, a tiny burrowing owl, was part of the hoot over a national park proposed for B.C.'s South Okanagan and Similkameen Valley during a news conference Wednesday in Victoria.
Victoria News, May 7, 2008
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Oasis of history and adventure
Posted May 07, 2008, 08:03:13
There is a proposal to make a new protective national park reserve in the South Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys that would put the area on par with Banff or Jasper parks.
Rick Cropp and Barbara Braidwood
Special to the Province
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Times are a’ changing on the Eco Front
Posted May 01, 2008, 06:10:44
Successful Big Trees not Big Stumps rally in Victoria on March 29 2008.
By Diane Walsh, March-April 2008 issue of the Lower Island News, Victoria BC
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Cabinet's keener
Posted April 30, 2008, 03:16:21
Clean-cut, earnest Barry Penner plays game of politics with the best
Jeff Rud, Times Colonist, Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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