Ancient mindsets can destroy ancient forests

What’s left of the province’s magnificent old-growth forests must be protected
Ken Wu, Special to Times Colonist
This Saturday, British Columbians may see one of the largest — if not the largest — environmental protests in our history at the legislature. Several thousand environmentalists and forestry workers, children and seniors, workers and business owners in Victoria are [...]

WCWC hopes for big turnout at protest

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Western Canada Wilderness Committee is hoping to beat records set by 1993 protests against logging in Clayoquot Sound by holding the largest environmental rally ever seen in B.C.
WCWC is using Facebook and e-mail as organizing tools and is hoping 3,000 protesters show up at the legislature at noon Saturday for the Rally [...]

Revisit of tree farm licence issue requested

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
When Arnie Campbell thinks of what the Juan de Fuca electoral area has lost due to removal of private land from tree farm licences, he gets hopping mad.
Looking at how residents of the Kootenays were treated when the provincial government allowed private lands held by bankrupt Pope and Talbot be taken out [...]

Interior’s trees get a better deal

Times Colonist
Vancouver Islanders were reminded this week of how terribly the provincial government betrayed them in allowing vast tracts of land to be removed from tree farm licences.
In the Interior, the government has just approved the removal of 4,341 hectares from a tree farm licence. That is about 15 per cent of the area that [...]

First Tassie Treesit of the Season Costs Logging Company $10,000

-The Age
Forestry Tasmania wants protesters who blocked access to a harvesting area of state forest to repay the estimated $10,000 cost of their actions.
A protester tethered to a boom gate and 16 other activists from the group Still Wild, Still Threatened abandoned their blockade of a site in the Upper Florentine Valley, 120km west of [...]

Company Logging Cathedral Grove 25% owned by BC Government

-Richard Boyce, Island Lens
Cathedral Grove is under attack again, this time by a company that the BC government owns 25% of through a numbered company in Manitoba. Does the public know that the same government responsible for protecting this unique old growth forest is logging adjacent to this world famous provincial park?
Scott Fraser, MLA for [...]

Logging at Cathedral Grove stops – for now

Julia Caranci, Canwest News Service
PORT ALBERNI – Island Timberlands has put plans on hold to log 7,500 cubic metres of old-growth forest near the border of Cathedral Grove park.
The forestry firm says, however, there are no guarantees the area won’t be harvested in the future.
Protesters concerned about the logging of the old-growth forest threatened to [...]

Piece of Vancouver Island has pricetag of $25 million

Timber company selling Capes Lake
Chuck Chiang, Calgary Herald
Those looking for their ultimate wilderness playground — complete with lakes, lush B.C. rainforests, hiking access to the Comox Glacier and views of a 300-foot waterfall — will now have their chance to own a piece of Vancouver Island.
The catch? The parcel, all 5,110 hectares of it, is [...]

Judge Rule Berkeley Treesitters Must Pay $26,000

By Will Kane, Daily Cal Staff Writer
A judge ruled Thursday that five protesters associated with the tree-sit must pay the University of California more than $26,000 in legal fees associated with the 22-month tree-sit.
Judge Cecilia Castellanos required that tree-sitter Michael “Shem” Schuck pay $8,500. She also ruled that unofficial tree-sit leader Erik “Ayr” Eisenberg pay [...]

Protesters threaten to disrupt logging near the border of Cathedral Grove

Julia Caranci, Canwest
PORT ALBERNI — Protesters are threatening to interfere with operations near
the border of Cathedral Grove Park using non-violent means. But some
reports suggest plans to log 7,500 cubic metres — or about 200 logging
trucks full — of old-growth forest could be on hold for the moment.