Doyle report a damning indictment

John Horgan, NDP MLA for Malahat-Juan de Fuca. Opinion in Goldstream Gazette
Over the past eighteen months I have written and spoken at length about former Forest Minister Rich Coleman’s decision to remove 28,000 hectares of land from three Western Forest Products Tree Farm Licences on Vancouver Island.

Sides in Clayoquot dispute agree to talk

Environmentalists angered by aboriginal-owned company’s plan to harvest trees in watershed
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY, Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER — Native and environmental groups are sitting down to settle their heated dispute over the fate of forests in Clayoquot Sound, a controversial wilderness area on the west coast of Vancouver Island that was a symbol of aboriginal and [...]

Truce called in Clayoquot logging dispute

Sandra McCulloch, Times Colonist
A two-week truce has been called to cool a brewing dispute over logging a pristine rain forest in Vancouver Island’s Clayoquot Sound.
The last-minute truce was called yesterday, on the day declared a deadline by environmentalists. They had given notice to two logging companies to get out of Clayoquot Sound or face blockades.