The usual suspects voting against protecting the environment, but Hemmens? She had my vote, but I'm taking it back!
And I was wavering between Krog and Lovegrove, but this solidified it for me. Lovegrove it is.
"Infill development is becoming increasingly common across Winnipeg, and while more housing is genuinely needed to address affordability, it is coming at a serious cost to our urban tree canopy. Winnipeg's canopy currently covers just 17% of the city. The City's own goal is to reach 24% by 2065.
We are already behind and mature trees that take 50 to 100 years to grow are coming down with no accountability and no replacement.
These trees are not decorative. A well-treed neighbourhood can be up to 4 degrees cooler than one without trees. That is the urban heat island effect. When concrete and pavement replace canopy, entire neighbourhoods get measurably hotter.
Trees also filter air, absorb stormwater, reduce flooding pressure on aging infrastructure, and studies show a 10% increase in canopy cover is associated with a 12% decrease in crime. Winnipeg already risks losing nearly half of its total tree population to disease over the next 40 years. We cannot afford to also lose them to development loopholes."
From Wild Insight via @reshare_app • Repost from @wildinsight
‼️Your voice is needed to stop BCTS logging rare old and ancient forests in endangered Mountain Caribou habitat near Revelstoke‼️
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This logging in a deferred no-cut zone will increase extirpation risk for the sole southernmost Mountain Caribou herd with a viable future — the Columbia North herd.
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Caribou abundance is predicted to decline by 42% for every 1% increase in forestry roads in their habitat, and the Foster Arm logging could create 30kms of road access through the Columbia North herd's habitat.
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The broader Foster Arm region is one of the last large areas of intact low-elevation old-growth left.
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🔗 Please use their pre-written letter to demand halting logging plans in Foster Creek — just as the government's own experts recommended. 🔗LINK IN WILDSIGHT's BIO🔗
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#takeactionnow #protectouroldgrowth #mountaincaribou #speciesatrisk
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Caribou photo by Monica Dahl
Please go to:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd1naTwFz4L/
Petition link:
At-risk, biodiverse old growth deferrals are being logged anyway. It's a myth that the current government is stopping 'access to fibre.' They seem to be letting everything be logged and with the new 'Working Forest' proposal even more will be logged. Without these intact forests we get much less rain, more drought and worse wildfires. Make it make sense.
"In the shadows of the Monashee mountains’ tallest peaks, 120 hectares of these old and ancient forests are slated to be logged. In the last few months, these forests have simply been removed from deferrals which identified them as some of the most at-risk and biodiverse forests in the province. We’re here just outside of the boundary of the Foster Creek Protected Area along the Kinbasket reservoir, roughly halfway between the Mica dam north of Revelstoke and Valemount.
It’s one of the most egregious proposals I’ve ever laid eyes on, and the impacts don’t justify the marginal economics of the proposal.
Not only do the proposed blocks overlap the Technical Advisory Panel’s recommended deferrals by over 100 hectares. We know from caribou censuses and collaring efforts that this area and the proposed cutblocks are used, occupied Caribou habitat. It’s part of a larger 6 square kilometre old and ancient forest patch that extends into the Foster Arm Protected Area. The larger Howard-Foster to Encampment area is likely one of the largest intact areas of low-elevation old growth left for the Columbia North Caribou herd. Broader, undisturbed areas of old forests like these allow Caribou to spatially separate themselves from predators, and create vital foraging habitat that contains critical early winter foods like falsebox. These large areas of intact low-elevation old forests are extremely rare in BC today.
The proposed blocks are composed of 350-367 year old cedar and hemlock forests according to the provincial Vegetation Resource Inventory. BCTS confirmed that the blocks were field-verified and did in fact meet the criteria as valued old-growth forests and deferrals, but that they were going to auction them off anyway as they had already invested in layout for the blocks. They sold the blocks in July."
https://wildsight.ca/2026/09/24/a-trip-into-the-endangered-ancient-foster-rainforest/
Planting more trees but most importantly not cutting down our existing urban trees unless they are found to be dangerous.
https://grist.org/cities/the-solution-to-urban-heat-is-much-much-simpler-than-you-think/
Has anyone thought about which Park Board candidates will most protect the urban canopy, end logging in Stanley Park and make temporary parks permanent?
I won't recommend any party in particular although there is one devoted to these issues. And ironically the current Green Party commissioner voted for the removal of thousands of living, dying and/or dead hemlocks even though they weren't proven to be dangerous via Wildlife/Dangerous Tree assessments.
Wildlife need dead trees, especially woodpeckers and bats. And logging impacts the forest floor and leads to the increased risk of blowdown. There is also the issue of saving Nelson Park from being turned into a substation with the loss of 85 trees. Without trees our city becomes much hotter in the summer making this a key election issue.
Repost from @joshuawrightfilm 2025 vs 2026 (edited slightly) ⚠️‼️ Via @reshare_app
This was Black Creek, a rainforest that existed for 11,000 years before being clear-cut earlier this year.
The audio in this video is of a bird that is now gone extinct, I thought it was fitting for Black Creek– once a remarkable place, now a sprawling network of clear cuts.
I’m tired of telling people to call politicians who aren’t listening.
So here’s what to do to help:
If you’re in BC: ORGANIZE, reach out to or found a local group to organize around the conservation of old growth forests. Organize rallies, meet with your MLAs - make yourself heard.
If you want to help buy ancient forests before they are cut DM me.
If you are involved in the building industry, do not buy red and yellow cedar.
If you are international, make a video on social media, calling out the deforestation happening in Canada and calling on your government to take action.
Your voice matters! Numbers matter!
We need you to stand with us to say loud and clear: HANDS OFF OLD GROWTH!
Why now? Sunday, Oct 4, is the day before Premier Eby and MLAs return to the Legislature. Let’s show them that people across BC have had enough “talk-and-log” and broken promises, and that we will stand strong and united to save what’s left.
Old growth continues to be logged in BC at the rate of 100 soccer fields per day. We wish we could say progress has been made or that the promised paradigm shift is on the agenda. But the reality is that the BC government has rolled out the red carpet for industry to clearcut the last remaining old growth and primary forests, with little to no financial gain to the province.
And certainly no financial gain, nor jobs, for forestry workers who have been sacrificed to forest industry greed.
Meanwhile wildfires and floods are intensifying, communities are being destroyed, and ecosystem functions are being irreparably harmed.
We all know that old growth and primary forests are worth more standing.
Protecting them, supporting First Nations with real conservation financing, and implementing the Old Growth Strategic Review — like the BC government promised to do in full — is how we safeguard biodiversity, climate stability, and community resilience for all of us.
That’s why we need you in Victoria, Oct 4, for the Hands Off Old Growth rally.
Mark the date now, invite your friends, share about the rally widely. Ask your organization, union, community group, faith group, business, or network to stand with us. Invite people personally. Help make our message impossible to ignore.
What: Hands Off Old Growth! A rally to support an end to old-growth logging
When: October 4, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Where: BC Legislature lawn, Victoria
In Victoria, join us and trace your hand on our giant “Hands Off” canvas, raise your voice in unity, hear from key speakers, and enjoy live music.
If you’re outside Victoria, join a local event or consider organizing one. You’ll have a lot of support: a toolkit, posters, everything you need to organize a successful action. It doesn’t matter if it’s small—having communities across BC taking action is a power message to the government.
If you can organize an action in your community, let us know at oldfolksforoldgrowth@gmail.com, and we’ll send you the support materials.
Stand strong with us. You are needed!
Text and image from Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance's post on Facebook.
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Return to Redrock - an ancient forest full of large cedars north of Revelstoke decimated by logging.
"Logging company Stella-Jones clearcut ancient forest and left only a small isolated stand (the provincially-identified deferral), fragmented in the middle by a road. The company also has adjacent blocks being proposed for logging that contain spectacular old-growth forests — the proposal will see 250 hectares of new logging in provincially defined core caribou habitat, much of which is old forest."
Make it stop. ✋
Vancouver Island’s forests are disappearing and the impact is devastating. Clear-cut logging is leaving barren landscapes, which is a threat to waterways, wildlife, and entire ecosystems. In this expose, we explore the Tsable River watershed as a case study to reveal the alarming effects of industrial logging, from increased sediment in streams to high risk peak flows.
Join the movement to protect Vancouver Island’s and all of British Columbia’s natural beauty and future. Subscribe, share, and be part of the change!
This is why we need national parks and rewilding - see for example National Trust’s Holnicote estate here, with restored wetlands and rivers, which prove resilient in the face of drought, wildfires and flooding...
CBC got this in 2019, now 'fact checkers' are trying to disprove this fact.
Even though herbicide use in British Columbia has sharply declined glyphosate spraying means that aspen may not grow back for 100 years.
(Translated version)
>While Ontario is experiencing an intense forest fire season, science points to a natural ally: the shake [aspen]. Although this tree proves to be a formidable “firebreak”, the current practices of the forestry industry, which is focused on eradicating it with herbicides, raise serious concerns among experts.
>A recent study from McGill University shows that aspen stands naturally slow the spread of wildfires.
>Flavie Pelletier, a researcher at McGill University who collaborated in research, analyzed satellite images of the Canadian boreal forest before and after the fire. The results are without appeal: the vast expanses of aspen are massively present on the periphery of the burned areas, thus slowing the progression of the fire.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2271250/boreale-comerciale-glyphosate-pesticide
Via @reshare_app From @ancientcoast.bc on Instagram
Until recently, this ancient forest was protected. 69.9 hectares (15.4%) of this Old-Growth Management Area was deleted last year to allow logging, one of the largest such amendments in the region. 🌲🪓 The only public notice for this change was an ad in the local newspaper…
Replacement areas are proposed elsewhere, but that data isn’t public yet - only the deletion shows. In any case, splitting one of the region’s largest OGMAs into smaller, disconnected pieces isn’t equivalent. Large, intact old-growth supports interior habitat that fragments can’t replace.
The yellow cedar in this forest have largely hollowed out with age, which is completely normal; some BC yellow cedars are documented at over 1,800 years old! As the video shows, heart rot doesn’t kill the tree; fungi break down the dead core while the tree keeps living. 💚 It’s also what creates cavity habitat for species like the Vancouver Island pygmy owl we heard calling - a blue-listed species already declining from habitat loss.
Comments on FOM # 40310 are open until August 20, 2026:
- Email FOM-MID@westernforest.com
- IMPORTANT: Include “FOM # 40310” in your comment
- Comments are reviewed and forwarded to the Ministry of Forests, so they do matter
- A comment that speaks to something specific - the habitat, the connectivity, the OGMA alteration with minimal notice, anything else that stood out to you - carries much more weight than a generic line
This cutblock is one of several old-growth cutblocks in this new proposal. Links in bio to view the full proposal, or try Cutblock Watch - a new tool by @4theloveofbc that makes tracking harvest proposals in BC much easier.
Missed the deadline? Consider contacting Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar about OGMA notification standards, or contact your local MLA.
#oldgrowth #rainforest #bcpolitics
So true and so well written. Although I think that this helicopter is dropping water on a fire and is just for illustration.
"For decades, the logging industry has used chemical spraying—specifically glyphosate—to systematically wipe out native deciduous trees like trembling aspen, birch, and willow. In the eyes of timber corporations, these plants are just “weeds” competing with commercial conifer lumber. But in the eyes of nature, these are the exact pioneer species required to build a biosphere, respirate, and provide humidity to our environment.
When you remove these plants, they can no longer do the job nature designed them to do. Broadleaf trees act as the forest’s natural air conditioning, pumping hundreds of litres of water vapour into the air daily through transpiration. Their dense, wet canopies create a giant umbrella that shields the forest floor from direct sunlight, trapping relative humidity underneath. Wiping them out turns off the moisture, bakes the soil into a dry dirt bed, and breaks the local water cycle completely."
