Deadline for a deal on Clayoquot old-growth is midnight tonight

Deadline for a deal on Clayoquot old-growth is midnight tonight
Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun
A deadline set by environmentalists for a moratorium on logging in a pristine watershed in Clayoquot Sound is set to pass at midnight tonight.
Environmental groups Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Clayoquot, the Wilderness Committee and Forest Ethics have given Ma-Mook Natural Resources [...]

Bell to Take a First Hand Look of Private Forest Logging

JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail
Victoria — Since he took over the Forest Ministry portfolio in June, Pat Bell has been thrust into a heated debate over regulation on private timberlands. This week he expects to take a first-hand look at the controversy with a helicopter tour over parts of Vancouver Island.
Mr. Bell said in an [...]

Towns seek review of forestry decision

Alliance of municipalities says province ‘playing with fire’ by not consulting them before deregulating private timberlands on Island
JUSTINE HUNTER, Globe and Mail
PORT ALBERNI — A series of private land-use deals between the province of B.C. and forestry companies, already under fire from environmentalists, has triggered a battle between Gordon Campbell’s government and an influential alliance [...]

Protest continues in B.C. forest

Ian Austin, Canwest News Service
A new war in the woods could break out on Vancouver Island’s picturesque Clayoquot Sound as environmentalists threaten the return of blockades and international boycotts unless logging halts around Hesquiat Point Creek.
During a highly publicized dispute in 1993, 800 protesters were arrested and hauled away in an ultimately successful bid to [...]

Today is environmentalists’ Clayoquot logging deadline

Canwest News Service
VANCOUVER — We could find out as early as today whether one of the most celebrated battlegrounds in B.C. environmental history will play host to a new war in the woods.
Environmentalists are threatening the return of blockades and international boycotts unless logging halts in the Hesquiat Point Creek of Clayoquot Sound.
The Friends of [...]

Environmentalists issue ultimatum over logging in B.C.’s Clayoquot Sound

TOFINO, B.C. — The war in the B.C. woods is on the verge of erupting again, as environmentalists and logging companies face off over forestry activity in the pristine rain forest of Vancouver Island’s Clayoquot Sound.
Environmental groups have issued an ultimatum to two forestry companies: Get out by Monday, or face the kind of blockades [...]