WOODS WAR II?

-Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail Report on Business
Clayoquot Sound was a historic green victory. But now the coalition that barred forestry from Canada’s last, best place has come unstuck. With natives logging for themselves, will things come to blows amid the old growth?
By the time I catch up with Gary Johnsen, president of native-owned Iisaak [...]

Allowable tree cut set by area, not volume

Might allow more timber to be cut: official
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
For the first time, the allowable annual cut for the tree farm licence that takes in fragile areas of Clayoquot Sound has been set by the area which can be logged, rather than in cubic metres of wood to be cut.
“We wanted to try some [...]

Green Party duped over Clayoquot clearcut

Image used at rally actually taken from Interfor logging site
Sandra McCulloch, Times Colonist
There was extensive international news coverage of the “Save the Clayoquot” rally in Tofino on Aug. 2, with many reports suggesting another war over old-growth logging was brewing in the West Coast wilderness.
But now it appears the location of a clearcut depicted in [...]

Former premier weighs in logging plans in Clayoquot Sound

-CBC
Environmental groups are trying to bully First Nations into abandoning their logging plans in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt says.
“I’m really disappointed in the environmental community and the bullying that’s going on of First Nations who are desperately trying to get away from welfare reserves to [...]

First Nations may trump environmentalists

Keith Baldrey, Special To North Shore News
There is a sense of inevitability associated with the looming fight between First Nations and this province’s environmental movement.
I’ve always thought it was just a matter of time before the two camps — once linked arm-in-arm in protests over land use — would square off over an issue pitting [...]

Talks continue on proposed logging in Hesquiaht

Gillian Riddell, Westerly News; with files from www.iisaak.com and www.focs.ca
Talks are continuing between environmental groups and a forestry company run by local First Nations about logging in the untouched Hesquiaht Point Creek valley in Clayoquot Sound.
On Monday, just hours before a deadline imposed by the environmentalists, a news release was issued stating the groups would [...]

Ongoing threat fuels Clayoquot rally, group says

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Clayoquot Sound remains under threat, even though a temporary truce has been called in a brewing battle between environmentalists and companies wanting to log an old-growth valley, says a prominent environmental group.
Friends of Clayoquot Sound, which grew out of massive protests that halted logging in Clayoquot in 1993, will hold a rally [...]

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.

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 [...]