by msmk89 | Mar 3, 2026 | Pellets
Drax’s announcement won’t change what’s happening in BC’s Natural Forests. Prince George, B.C. – Drax, a UK-based energy company that controls much of the trans-oceanic wood pellet trade has announced that its Yorkshire, England power plant...
by msmk89 | Sep 30, 2025 | Logging, Primary forest
Active management’ not compatible with sustaining ecological values. Over 140 people from all over BC attended our webinar last week with Dr. David Lindenmayer, Dr. Dominick DellaSala, and Herb Hammond, who between them have more than a century of experience...
by msmk89 | Jul 16, 2025 | Primary forest
Death, disease, decay and damage are the rule, not the exception, in natural forests. These critical processes allow for renewal, rejuvenation, habitat creation, and nutrient cycling. The summer of 2024, with the help of the Sitka Foundation, we brought Briony Penn...
by msmk89 | May 16, 2025 | Action, Caribou, Event
In May 2025 we launched a short video about the Walker Wilderness in collaboration with Evan Dux Media. The film features late Lheidli T’enneh elder Edie Frederick, longtime Walker Creek resident Hugh Perkins, and expert botanist Curtis Bjork. We are honoured that...
by msmk89 | Oct 19, 2024 | Logging
Conservation North met with Dene elders in Fort Nelson in October 2024 to see what post-wildfire “salvage” logging looks like on the ground in the boreal forest. Photo 1 shows a forest that experienced wildfire in 2024 (Parker Lake). There are dead trees...
by msmk89 | Sep 18, 2024 | Pellets
In September of 2024 we hosted a delegation from Japan that included Global Environmental Forum and Mighty Earth Japan, a journalist from a major Japanese newspaper, a forester, and a photographer. About 75% of the wood pellets produced in BC are burned to produce...
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.” UK-based power...
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 | Dec 5, 2023 | Action, Pellets
Japan sources more pellets from BC than from any other jurisdiction in the world. As reported by Business in Vancouver, Conservation North visited Japan with policy analyst Ben Parfitt of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in December. We were invited and...
by msmk89 | Aug 19, 2023 | FRPA, Logging
This article was written by our director Michelle Connolly and veteran forester Herb Hammond and published in the National Observer in August of 2023. It’s behind a paywall, so we’re reprinting a slightly shorter version here. The inventory of loss in...
by msmk89 | Jul 19, 2023 | FRPA, Primary forest
In late 2022, the Prince George Natural Resource District implemented 250,000 hectares of mapped ‘no harvest’ areas in response to a Forest Practices Board (‘Board’) investigation on industrial logging of old growth forests. In their 2020 investigation,...
by msmk89 | Apr 19, 2023 | Primary forest
With funding from the Makeway Foundation, we traveled into the Raush valley with two Simpcw councillors and the Fraser Headwaters Alliance (FHA) in late 2021. The Raush valley is in the territories of Secwépemc and Dakelh people. The FHA have campaigned for the full...
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...
