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Clearcutting The Walbran’s Thousand-Year-Old Trees

The ECOreport looks into news that Teal Jones is already clearcutting the Walbran’s thousand-year-old trees

By Roy L Hales

It has been a year since the Wilderness Committee drew our attention to the planned logging of old growth trees in the central Walbran Valley. So far, the controversial heli-block 4424 has remained untouched. Since last November, Teal Jones has been logging 6 or 7 cutblocks…

Targeting BC’s Minister of Forests

With the war in the woods heats up, Environmentalists are targeting BC’s Minister of Forests in a Phone Blitz asking that he take action to save the Walbran’s old growth forest.

Press Release from the Wilderness Committee

Environmentalists at the Wilderness Committee are increasing their efforts to stop old-growth logging in Vancouver Island’s Central Walbran Valley, with a decentralized “phone…

Wilderness Committee Is In Court

The Wilderness Committee is in court this morning, fighting a Logging company’s injunction to  bar public access to the Walbran Valley 

Press Release from the Wilderness Committee

VICTORIA – Lawyers from Ecojustice representing the Wilderness Committee is in court this morning, seeking to prevent or constrain an injunction application being brought by logging company Teal Jones.

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Logging Wars Return To the Walbran

By Roy L Hales

The struggle  to the Walbran valley’s ancient trees, in a intact Old Forest ecosystem, started in the 1980s. This led to the logging blockades and the provincial government setting a portion of this area in the Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park. A Surrey based logging company recently applied to harvest eight cutblocks of the unprotected area and on last month the Ministry of…

Why The Walbran Is Important

By Roy L Hales

British Columbia’s Ministry of Forests said the first cutback the in the Walbran Valley is only 3.2 hectares large. It is to be  heli-logged,  not clearcut. The province is protecting over 30,300 hectares in old growth management areas in the South Island Natural Resource District. The map on the top of this page shows what they did not say, why the Walbran is important.

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How Does BC Defend Logging the Walbran?

By Roy L Hales

On September 18th BC’s Ministry of Forests gave Teal Jones approval to start logging in what is believed to be one of Canada’s most important stands of unprotected old-growth rain-forest. The Walbran Valley, on Vancouver Island, contains some of the nation’s oldest and largest red cedar and sitka spruce trees. Teal Jones has applied to log eight cutbacks. So far, they have only…