Old Growth Logging

• 3 arrested as B.C. RCMP resume enforcement against Fairy Creek old-growth logging blockade

  RCMP said Teal Cedar Products had reported "numerous violations of persons obstructing, impeding and interfering with" work the Fairy Creek watershed.

  Environment

  Aug 15
  
• B.C. study links policy changes and logging patterns, shows targeting of old growth

  Climate change is compounding the historical loss of B.C.'s old-growth forests in areas where the highest-value trees have already targeted first, a new study shows.

  Environment

  Oct 3, 2022
  
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• Environmental groups give B.C. failing grades on old-growth forest protection plan

  B.C. environmental groups say the province is failing to make good on its 2020 promise to protect old-growth trees.

  Environment

  Sep 9, 2022
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• New report suggests proposed old-growth deferral areas in B.C. are being logged

  According to Stand.earth, more than 55,000 hectares of proposed protected land is at "imminent risk" of being logged, is currently being logged or has already been cut.

  Environment

  Aug 30, 2022
• Save Old Growth on the defence after B.C. judge likens tactics to ‘using people as cannon fodder’

  A B.C. judge wrote that protester Ian Schortinghuis "appears to be the type of person these groups entice and basically use as sacrificial lambs for their causes."

  Environment

  Aug 29, 2022
• Old growth protesters spray-paint B.C. landmarks

  An activist group opposed to old growth logging in B.C. says it has been spray-painting Vancouver tourist attractions and landmarks as an act of civil disobedience.

  Environment

  Jul 28, 2022
• Old-growth logging opponents to end B.C. highway blockades

  “Major traffic disruptions will end today,” environmental group Save Old Growth said, adding it would switch tactics to public outreach and events.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2022
• B.C. wants First Nations consensus before old-growth logging deferred on shared lands

  The British Columbia government wants First Nations to reach consensus before logging is deferred in old-growth forests on shared Indigenous territories.

  Environment

  May 28, 2022
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• Old-growth logging protesters dump manure at B.C. premier’s constituency office

  The group is demanding B.C.'s NDP government bring in legislation to immediately end all old-growth logging in the province.

  Environment

  May 25, 2022
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• B.C. man ends hunger strike against old-growth logging after 31 days

  Howard Breen, 68, ended the strike after experiencing cognitive decline and losing nearly 40 pounds, according to environmental group Save Old Growth.

  Environment

  May 1, 2022