Clayoquot partnership rotting away

MARK HUMe, Globe and Mail
VANCOUVER — In Clayoquot Sound, where a towering rain forest has achieved iconic global status, the first logging protests saw environmentalists and natives standing shoulder to shoulder.
At Meares Island, Sulphur Passage and Atleo River, natives and non-natives faced arrest at blockades more than 20 years ago, while forging an alliance that would go on to change the face of British Columbia.
But in that tangled, temperate jungle, where deer ferns stand waist-high and giant trees blot out the sky, environmentalists are now threatening to block a native-owned logging company from cutting trees.

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 becoming economically self-sufficient, self-governing communities,” Harcourt said in an interview Thursday with CBC News.

Islander’s complaint upheld by Forest Practices Board

The Forest Practices Board has upheld a Sierra Club BC complaint that the endangered northern goshawk’s habitat is under threat from logging on the Queen Charlottes.
“The board’s recommendations fully support our concerns about the destruction of goshawk foraging habitat,” said Jacques Morin, a biologist and chair of Sierra Club Haida Gwaii. Mr. Morin filed the complaint in September 2006, after the Forest Practices Board urged cautious management of northern goshawk habitat on the Charlottes to ensure the hawk’s long-term survival.
In the final report released August 1, the board agreed with Sierra Club BC that “there are no interim measures in place to conserve or protect foraging habitat” pending the release of an action plan from the federal goshawk recovery team.