Voids under interchange concern scientists

-Goldstrean News Gazette
Excavations at the Spencer Road Interchange construction area have unveiled a network of void spaces below ground, leading a geoscientist and cave experts to be concerned that the ground will safely support the road.
In and around Langford Lake cave, metres away from where the road will pass, are a number of limestone rock [...]

Environmentalists’ report critical of Bear Mountain

Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Opponents of the Bear Mountain development hope to spur debate with the release of a hefty report chronicling the Bear Mountain resort development in Langford.
“It’s to promote public dialogue,” said Zoe Blunt, spokeswoman for the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network, which produced the document.
“We noticed that when we asked people for [...]

Road bulding underway near Jordan River. Rally Thursday!

Trees are falling and rocks are being blasted for road materials, in preperation for Western Forest Products subdivisions, across from Sandcut Beach and a few kms from Jordan River.
Join us at Library Square at Noon this Thursday, July 10, and help save this land while there is still time.
While many of us are enjoying our [...]

Dire picture of B.C. wildlife, wilderness

Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver Sun
A “groundbreaking” report on the state of B.C. wildlife and wilderness
to be released Wednesday by the provincial government paints a dire
picture, according to a scientist with the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Sadly, it’s going to show that, despite the assumption that most of
us have that live here that we have a bounty and a [...]

Wild Earth Rendezvous, August 25-31, 2008

Annual forest action training camp on BC’s coast. Share skills, meet great people, and defend the land! Hands-on workshops, networking and volunteer opportunities.
Wild Earth Camp - Volunteer opportunities for 2008
Join us in August for the campout in Bella Coola, on BC’s north coast. Details to be announced. Volunteers are needed!

Boise Inc. to suspend purchasing from Grassy Narrows

SAN FRANCISCO - Addressing longstanding concerns raised by northwest Ontario’s Grassy Narrows First Nation, Rainforest Action Network and a coalition of allies, Boise Inc. has notified logging company AbitibiBowater that it will cease purchasing wood fiber logged from Grassy Narrows’ traditional territory in the Whiskey Jack Forest without the indigenous community’s consent.

Fifth Treesitter Arrested in Tasmanian Forest Action

-abc.net.au
Another forest activist has been arrested in the Little Dennison Valley near Ranelagh in Tasmania’s south.
The man was perched on a tree platform which was attached to logging machinery.

Conflict alert for ancient sites

B.C. first nations ready to fight to save what’s left of heritage, expert says
Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
VANCOUVER - Without a radical shift in thinking about first nations archaeology, B.C. is in danger of losing what is left of its ancient heritage and sparking heated conflict with natives, according to PhD candidate [...]

Great Short Film:Scarred Landscape

(On a random keyword “Bear Mountain” search I found this short film from IndakazProductions. Thanks y’alls. I’m going to let this video do all my talking today. See you tomorrow.)

A short movie about logging and construction in BC
inspired by the Bear Mountain tree-sitters, the Lorax and Kristine Bresee who all speak for the trees because [...]

Residents hope to save B.C.’s Salt Spring Island rainforest

Residents of B.C.’s Salt Spring Island are trying to save a temperate rainforest that’s slated to be cut down soon so a subdivision can be developed.
Maureen Moore, a spokeswoman for Save Salt Spring Island’s Creekside Rainforest, said a private company plans to develop eight hectares of the island located on the east side of Vancouver [...]