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Journalism: The over-exploitation of BC forests

Library: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity

Journalism: Loss of forest-related employment

Journalism: The need to expedite final treaties with First Nations

Journalism: Loss of primary forest

Journalism: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity

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Library: The over-exploitation of BC forests

Library: Loss of primary forest

Library: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests

Make conservation of the hydrological function of forests a higher priority than timber extraction

Library: Loss of forest-related employment

Library: The need to expedite final treaties with First Nations

Transition from clearcut logging to selection logging

Library: Increase in forest fire hazard

Journalism: End public subsidization of BC's forest industry

Library: End public subsidization of BC's forest industry

Library: The need to reform BC forest legislation

Journalism: The need to reform BC forest legislation

Library: Creating a new vision for BC forests

Forest industry public subsidy calculator

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Community Forest Mapping Projects

Area-based calculations of carbon released from clearcut logging

Journalism: The increase in forest carbon emissions

Library: Increase in forest carbon emissions

To protect biodiversity, transition away from clearcut logging

Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance

Library: Loss of future employment resulting from exporting raw logs

Mapping old forest on Vancouver Island

Mapping old forest in Omineca Natural Resource Region

Mapping old forest in Skeena Natural Resource Region

Mapping old forest in Northeastern Natural Resource Region

Mapping old forest in Cariboo Natural Resource Region

Mapping old forest in South Coast Natural Resource Region

Mapping old forest in Thompson-Okanagan Natural Resource Region

Mapping old forest in Kootenay-Boundary Natural Resource Region

Forest Conservation Organizations

Mapping old forest on Haida Gwaii

Mapping old forest on the central coast

Library: Ecologically damaging practices

Journalism: Ecologically damaging practices

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Action Group: Divestment from forest-removal companies

Fact-checking mindustry myths

First Nations Agreements

Monitor: BC Timber Sales Auctions

BC Timber Sales auction of old-growth forests on Vancouver Island

Monitoring of forest fires in clearcuts and plantations: 2021

Library: End public subsidization of forest industry

Examples of engaging the mindustry:

Portal: The over-exploitation of BC forests

Portal: The need to reform BC forest legislation

Portal: The need to expedite treaties with First Nations

Portal: The need to get more organized, informed and inspired for change

Portal: Develop a new relationship with forests

Portal: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity

Portal: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests

Portal: Increase in forest fire hazard

Portal: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity

Portal: Increase in forest carbon emissions

Portal: Ecologically damaging forestry practices

Portal: Loss of forest-related employment

Portal: Loss of future employment resulting from raw log exports

Portal: Costs of floods, fires and clearcutting of watersheds

Portal: The economic impact on communities of boom and bust cycles

Portal: Loss of economic development by other forest-based sectors

Portal: The true cost of subsidies provided to the logging industry

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Loss of trust in institutions

Portal: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction

Portal: The psychological unease caused by forest destruction

Portal: Loss of trust in institutions caused by over-exploitation of BC forests

Portal: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests

Journalism: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction

Journalism: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction

Journalism: Loss in trust of institutions as a result of over-exploitation of BC forests

Journalism: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests

Library: The instability of communities dependent on forest extraction

Library: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction

Library: Loss of trust in institutions as a result of over-exploitation of BC forests

Library: Social division caused by over-exploitation of BC forests

Resources: Psychological unease caused by forest destruction

Resources: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles

Resources: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors

Journalism: Cost of floods, fires and clearcutting of community watersheds

Journalism: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles

Journalism: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors

Library: Cost of floods, fires and clearcutting of community watersheds

Library: The economic impact on communities of boom-and-bust cycles

Library: Loss of economic development potential in other forest-based sectors

Portal: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads

Portal: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips

Journalism: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads

Library: Permanent loss of forests to logging roads

Journalism: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips

Library: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips

Resources: The economic costs of converting forests into sawdust and wood chips

Resources: Ecologically damaging forestry practices

Resources: Conversion of forests to permanent logging roads

Library: Getting organized

Journalism: Getting organized

Forest politics

Forest Stewards

Portal: Plantation failure

Library: Plantation failure

Journalism: Plantation failure

Library: Loss of carbon sequestration capacity

Portal: Soil loss and damage

Journalism: Soil loss and damage

Library: Soil loss and damage

Resources: Soil loss and damage

Journalism: Loss of employment resulting from export of raw logs

Journalism: Destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of biodiversity

Journalism: Loss of the hydrological functions of forests

Journalism: Increase in forest fire hazard

Action Group: Sunlighting professional reliance

Making the case for much greater conservation of BC forests

Science Alliance for Forestry Transformation

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Economic State of the BC Forest Sector

Big tree mapping and monitoring

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Physical impacts created by logging industry

Nature Directed Stewardship at Glade and Laird watersheds

References for: How did 22 TFLs in BC evade legal old-growth management areas?

References for: BC's triangle of fire: More than just climate change

References for: Teal Cedar goes after Fairy Creek leaders

References for: Is the draft framework on biodiversity and ecosystem health something new? Or just more talk and log?

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  1. V Thompson
    Very glad to see this legal action. Government and the RCMP need to be told they cannot infringe on people's rights to safely observe an action from a place not covered by an injunction i.e. from the side of a road, and journalists' rights to cover any protest must be respected. The egregious disrespect for peoples' rights to observe without harassment or arrest, and demonstrators or land defender's rights to be treated with respect at all stages of detention and arrest, as well as their belongings beings respected and returned, is essential for our democracy in Canada. CIRG should be punished, penalized and disbanded and a precedent will hopefully be set that would disallow any such similar group as CIRG from ever being formed again.
  2. V Thompson
    Very glad to see this legal action. Government and the RCMP need to be told they cannot infringe on people's rights to safely observe an action from a place not covered by an injunction i.e. from the side of a road, and journalists' rights to cover any protest must be respected. The egregious disrespect for peoples' rights to observe without harassment or arrest, and demonstrators or land defender's rights to be treated with respect at all stages of detention and arrest, as well as their belongings beings respected and returned, is essential for our democracy in Canada. CIRG should be punished, penalized and disbanded and a precedent will hopefully be set that would disallow any such similar group as CIRG from ever being formed again.
  3. V Thompson
    Absolutely great article. So well documented, thorough, and in my opinion balanced too. The truth may be hard to hear for some, but there's no point in avoiding it like an osterich with its head in the sand. Let's get on with a transition to more value added and ecologically based forestry, with realistic financial support for tenures moved to First Nations and local forestry communities on condition they manage in this new paradigm.
  4. V Thompson
    Absolutely great article. So well documented, thorough, and in my opinion balanced too. The truth may be hard to hear for some, but there's no point in avoiding it like an osterich with its head in the sand. Let's get on with a transition to more value added and ecologically based forestry, with realistic financial support for tenures moved to First Nations and local forestry communities on condition they manage in this new paradigm.
  5. V Thompson
    This so sad and infuriating and mirrors in many ways the situation of mountain caribou in the Inland Temperate Rainforest.
  6. V Thompson
    This so sad and infuriating and mirrors in many ways the situation of mountain caribou in the Inland Temperate Rainforest.
  7. V Thompson
    This so sad and infuriating and mirrors in many ways the situation of mountain caribou in the Inland Temperate Rainforest.
  8. V Thompson
    This so sad and infuriating and mirrors in many ways the situation of mountain caribou in the Inland Temperate Rainforest.
  9. V Thompson
    This so sad and infuriating and mirrors in many ways the situation of mountain caribou in the Inland Temperate Rainforest.
  10. V Thompson
    This so sad and infuriating and mirrors in many ways the situation of mountain caribou in the Inland Temperate Rainforest.
  11. V Thompson
    Shocking to actually see the clearcuts on your video. More people need to be aware of what's happening and the plan to log all the original forest in BC. Most people don't know that that has been the default plan for logging in BC, and except for some questionable deferrals in terms of timing and placement, and plan to save old growth according to the Old Growth Review Panel which may or may not be activated before all the original or primary forest is gone, this plan for logging all primary or orginal forest is still there!
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    yes Robert Hart. And Old Growth Revylution has not closed communication with Downie Timber, BCTS or FLNRORD or anyone else in industry, communities and Indigenous communities. We are holding tight for now and hopefully continuing communication.
  15. V Thompson
    yes Robert Hart. And Old Growth Revylution has not closed communication with Downie Timber, BCTS or FLNRORD or anyone else in industry, communities and Indigenous communities. We are holding tight for now and hopefully continuing communication.
  16. V Thompson
    More information about "Argonaut and Bigmouth blockade holding the line"
    Old Growth Revylution blockade shakes up business as usual in the Revelstoke area. Old Growth Revylution’s camp as the snow began to fall The Old Growth Revylution (OGR) blockade continues. We have had a constant presence at the Bigmouth River Forest Service Road since July 6, 2021. The blockade has been moved closer to Highway 23. We’re now about .8 km in from the highway. We have a huge tarpee and a camper and another camper coming on board. People rotate going up there. The snow removal involved is massive—120 km north of Revelstoke can have 37 feet of snow in a season and we have had record snowfalls this year. People keep donating—snowblowers and equipment and money. Extraordinary. When we began in early July, 2021, British Columbia Timber Sales (BCTS) was punching a road into the three cutblocks in Argonaut Creek which had not been deferred. Eleven cutblocks had already been deferred earlier in the year until mountain caribou herd planning is completed. At the moment, this is timed for the end of 2022. The road-building equipment was removed due to our blockade. The Bigmouth River Forest Service Road blockade in summer 2021 In late August, BCTS asked if they could stabilize this road, but OGR said they would not let them in to do this unless they deferred these last three remaining blocks in the pristine Argonaut Creek valley. They never replied, but sent helicopters in twice to ditch the road by hand. These last three blocks were scheduled to be auctioned off in the fall of 2021, but this did not happen as the road was probably still unstable and certainly unfinished, and there was a blockade on the Argonaut and, in fact, the whole Bigmouth Valley and Louis Lee branch. The last three blocks of Argonaut Creek valley were deferred in the November 2, 2021 announcement of proposed deferrals. These three blocks were not conditional on Indigenous approval or anything else. So this was a clear win, which was mostly due to the OGR blockade. OGR then did a pop-up blockade of the Akolkolex logging road near Revelstoke because Downie Timber was logging in proposed deferral areas. Downie stopped logging in these proposed deferral areas, but—it has to be said—this was largely due to being given approvals for additional adjacent cutblocks. The action also led to a meeting with Downie, which has opened communication. There has been discussion of logging in some areas rather than in others in the Bigmouth. However, OGR has declined this “compromise” and continues to emphasize policy change at the provincial level to stop logging old and primary forests. So here we remain. Virginia Thompson is a member of Old Growth Revylution.
  17. V Thompson
    Well said!
  18. V Thompson
    Well said!
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