Private forest land release defended

PORT RENFREW – As Rod Bealing drives his pickup along the narrow road that winds through forest lands released from southern Vancouver Island tree farm licences, he sees a beginning rather than an end.
The mist-shrouded fishing and logging hamlet of Port Renfrew has about 300 year-round residents now, with tourism slowly picking up as forestry winds down. Bealing’s old map shows that 50 years ago, there were more people than that in a single logging camp here.

Blockade heats things up near Jumbo

Activists intend to halt new attack on the alpine—“ski lift to nowhere” a travesty
Jumbo Valley, B.C. — Concerned East Kootenay citizens have set up a blockade approximately 50 kilometres from Invermere on the Farnham Creek Forest Service Road. People committed to keeping the area wild intend to halt road construction inside the Jumbo Glacier Resort Controlled Recreation Area.