Forestry

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The descendants of Native American tribes on the Northern California coast are reclaiming a bit of their heritage that includes ancient redwoods that have stood since their ancestors walked the land.

Save the Redwoods League planned to announce Tuesday that it is transferring more than 500 acres (202 hectares) on the Lost Coast to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council.

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Letter to Editor re Fairy Creek defenders and all other old-growth protesters

19/01/22

Author:

Taryn Skalbania

Link:

Kelowna Daily Courier

Jan. 19, 2022

In recent letter to editor in Kelowna paper, a 'conservative' called protestors at Fairy Creek 'nincompoops', said 'get a real job', so I wrote back - Taryn Skalbania

Re: “Find legitimate jobs for protesters,” Letters, Jan 15:

Dear Editor: I support of the actions of “tree-hugging heretics” as Paul Crossley of Penticton refers to the thousands of ancient tree, primary forest and old-growth defenders, province-wide.

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Corporate Forest Destruction Worsening Climate Crisis

18/01/22

Author:

Kenny Stancil

Link:

Common Dreams

An aerial photograph taken on February 24, 2014 shows the destruction of an Indonesian rainforest—the habitat of endangered orangutans, tigers, and other animals as well as plant species—cleared to make way for a palm oil plantation on Borneo Island. (Photo: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images)

Jan. 13, 2022

"Most companies and financial institutions with the greatest ability to halt deforestation are doing little or nothing."

A new report published Thursday details how some of the world's biggest corporations and banks are exacerbating the global climate emergency by fueling the destruction of the world's tropical rainforests.

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Conservation cash vital to securing B.C.’s old-growth deferrals

13/01/22

Author:

Rochelle Baker

Link:

National Observer

Ken Wu, chair of the new Nature-Based Solutions Foundation, says conservation financing is necessary for First Nations in B.C. that agree to pause logging at-risk old-growth. Photo courtesy of NBSF

Jan. 13, 2022

A new conservation foundation is working to provide Indigenous and other land-based communities with funds to protect endangered ecosystems and build economic alternatives to the logging of at-risk old-growth forests.

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Forest Activists Shut Down The Trans Canada Highway 2022

12/01/22

Author:

XRTV Victoria

Link:

You Tube

Forest Activists Shut Down The Trans Canada Highway 2022

Jan 11, 2022

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0QgAdkXr-0

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NDP fallout over B.C. government actions harms federal election chances

25/12/21

Author:

Chen Zhou

Link:

Ricochet Media

Dec. 23, 2021

RCMP raids at Wet’suwet’en and Fairy Creek, and the silence of the federal party, are resurfacing old divisions among Canada’s New Democrats

Frustration is mounting among left-wing members of Canada’s New Democratic Party, who feel the party has lost its way.

In recent weeks members have publicly quit, others have circulated petitions and some have shared stories of what they perceive to be dirty tricks from a party leadership determined to ostracize them.

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First Nations Need More Time on NDP's Quickie Deferral Proposal

19/12/21

Author:

The Canadian Press

Link:

Times Colonist

Dec. 16, 2021

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is finalizing plans with First Nations that have indicated support for plans to defer logging in certain old-growth forests, while it continues talks with nations that need more time to decide.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is finalizing plans with First Nations that have indicated support for plans to defer logging in certain old-growth forests, while it continues talks with nations that need more time to decide.

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Suzanne Simard sees the forest for the trees

18/12/21

Author:

Matt Simmons

Link:

National Observer

Suzanne Simard says returning now to the forests where she spent her childhood summers eating dirt is heartbreaking — because they’re gone. Photo by Brendan Ko

Dec. 17, 2021

Everything in an ecosystem is connected. A tiny sapling relies on a towering ancient tree, just like a newborn baby depends on its mother. And that forest giant needs the bugs in the dirt, the salmon carcass brought to its roots by wolves and bears and the death and decay of its peers. It thrives not in isolation, but because of dizzyingly complex connections with other trees and plants through vast but tiny fungal networks hidden below the forest floor.

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Reforming BC Timber Sales: How to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

18/12/21

Author:

Saul Arbess

Link:

The Evergreen Alliance

With much of BC Timber Sales' old-growth logging on pause, the Province could direct the publicly-owned agency to focus its logging program on second-growth forests using ecosystem-based management.

Background

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Forestry

"Most companies and financial institutions with the greatest ability to halt deforestation are doing little or nothing."

RCMP raids at Wet’suwet’en and Fairy Creek, and the silence of the federal party, are resurfacing old divisions among Canada’s New Democrats

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is finalizing plans with First Nations that have indicated support for plans to defer logging in certain old-growth forests, while it continues talks with nations that need more time to decide.

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