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 | 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 Michelle Connelly | Jun 25, 2024 | Logging, Pellets, Primary forest
ドラックス・グループ（ドラックス社） は、英国を拠点と する企業であり、世界最大のバイオマス発電所を運営して いるほか、エンビバ社に次いで世界第2 位の木質ペレット 生産量を有する。同社は、英国内のドラックス発電所で自 社生産の木質ペレットを燃料として使用し、また主に日本 の企業に木質ペレットを販売している。 ドラックス社は、2021 年にカナダのブリティッシュコロン ビア（BC） 州最大の木質ペレット生産企業であるピナク ル・リニューアブル・エナジー社を買収し、現在同州に7 つのペレット工場を保有している。同社のBC...
by Michelle Connelly | Jun 9, 2024 | Logging, Primary forest, Walker
Download the full report: Walker_Report_final_15Feb2024 ABSTRACT The Walker study area, in Lheidli T’enneh territory (Upper Fraser region in east-central British Columbia), corresponds to the entire Walker Creek drainage and adjacent valleys reaching to the...
by Michelle Connelly | May 6, 2024 | Logging, Walker
Nicole RobichaudBritish Columbia Timber Sales2000 South Ospika BoulevardPrince George, B.C.V2N 4W5 May 6, 2024 Re: Walker operating area proposed blocks Dear Ms. Robichaud, Cc: Jonathan Taylor, Planning Officer BCTS; Mike McLachlan, Operations Manager BCTS; Shawn...
by Michelle Connelly | Apr 25, 2024 | Caribou, Logging
The Walker: one of the last intact watersheds in the Robson Valley, yet untouched by industrial activity. How can someone fight to defend such a wild place that they have never visited and understand little about? The secluded nature of the Walker means that very few...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
