by msmk89 | May 3, 2024 | Action
“The BC government recently asked for public feedback on the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework. This is our contribution.” This is our letter to the Government…. To the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework team, We are a volunteer collective...
by msmk89 | May 2, 2024 | Pellets
“UK-based Drax is still sourcing from old growth forests in BC. With Biofuelwatch, the Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition, we confirmed that some of the rarest old growth in northern BC is heading towards electricity plants in England and Japan.” Drax Group Plc is a...
by msmk89 | Apr 4, 2024 | Action
We will be doing a public presentation for the Interior Watershed Task Force on Saturday, April 13th called Primary Forests Today for Wildlife and Water Tomorrow. The event will take place in Vernon, BC. Stay tuned for more details. “all natural forests experience...
by msmk89 | May 22, 2022 | Logging, Pellets
Photo: inland temperate rainforest with a past western hemlock looper (native insect) outbreak in the Goat River area east of Prince George, BC From Justin Castanoso’s latest article in Mongabay: “In a surprising and unprecedented vote this week, the...
by msmk89 | Apr 13, 2022 | Research
Prince George, BC – An international team of scientists have published a new peer-reviewed study on the importance of protecting primary forests in BC’s Interior Wetbelt (IWB) bioregion for the climate. Scientists from the University of Northern British Columbia,...
by msmk89 | Feb 16, 2022 | Logging, Pellets
Matthew Boswell Commissioner of Competition Competition Bureau of Canada Place du Portage I 50 Victoria Street, Room C-114 Gatineau,QC K1A0C9 Subject: Drax Group’s anti-competitive practices in British Columbia’s and Canada’s wood pellet industry Dear Mr. Boswell, We...
by msmk89 | Dec 2, 2021 | Pellets
Why is BC allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets? Prince George, BC – A northern conservation group has confirmed that BC is currently allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to stop this...
by msmk89 | Jun 22, 2021 | Logging
Backgrounder on spatial deferrals in the PGTSA FLNRORD will defer logging in some high risk old growth in the Prince George Timber Supply Area according to a recent letter to the Forest Practices Board. Here is some background on how this came to be. The Biodiversity...
by msmk89 | Jun 21, 2021 | Custom
Temporary Old Growth Protection for the Rainforest Conservation North acknowledges news that the BC government will defer logging in some at-risk old growth forests in the Prince George TSA but warns that land use planning allows decision-makers to offload their...
by msmk89 | Feb 21, 2021 | Bad Practices, Pellets
The BC government is receiving public comment until Wednesday, March 3rd on a proposed forest license transfer in the Forest Nelson Timber Supply Area from Canfor to Peak Renewables. The transfer will enable the creation of a pellet plant that will use as its...
by msmk89 | Feb 20, 2021 | Bad Practices, Logging
Prince George, BC – A forest-focused conservation group in northern BC has released both the first province-wide cumulative impacts map and the first visual account of our last remaining old growth forests. “They are the first tools of their kind made by the...
by msmk89 | Jan 5, 2021 | Bad Practices, Logging
Prince George, BC – A northern conservation group is calling for a moratorium on primary forest logging in the Prince George Timber Supply Area following the release of an investigative report by the Forest Practices Board (‘the Board’). The Board concluded that...
by msmk89 | Dec 11, 2020 | Bad Practices, Caribou
Following massive public backlash, BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has suspended plans to log endangered caribou habitat in an area of rainforest north of Revelstoke, BC. BCTS had planned to auction off 11 cutblocks — an area totalling 276 hectares — and build 10 more...
by msmk89 | Oct 9, 2020 | Pellets
Prince George, BC – A northern forest advocacy group recently encountered pink flagging indicating a planned cutblock in the globally-rare inland rainforest just 45 minutes east of Prince George. “Finding flagging isn’t new. What was different here is that it...
by msmk89 | Sep 14, 2020 | Bad Practices, Logging
Prince George, BC – Northern BCers are unimpressed by the government’s announcement on old growth forests last week. The province announced nine general locations where they will temporarily defer logging of old growth. “None of the temporary area deferrals are in our...
by msmk89 | Aug 5, 2020 | Action
We are reprinting this story from today’s National Observer. Like the hunger strikers, we want old growth protection, NOT “sustainable” logging of them. Environment minister says he shares concerns of B.C. hunger strikers By Carl Meyer | News,...
by msmk89 | Jul 19, 2020 | Field
This summer, with funding from Yellowstone to Yukon’s (Y2Y) Partner Grant Program, Conservation North, Save-The-Cedar League, and local volunteers have worked to revitalize two trails in the Inland Rainforest east of Prince George: the Morkill Old Growth Cedar Trail...
by msmk89 | Jun 3, 2020 | Action
Research released today by independent scientists Dr. Karen Price, Dr. Rachel Holt and Dave Daust shows that old growth forests in BC have been logged to their ecological limits. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to spatially identify...
