Voices for the wilderness will be heard!
Your adopted tree lives in a beautiful old growth forest in Southern British Columbia's last remaining major wilderness watershed. It grows on the route of a proposed logging road into the heart of the rugged Stein.
The B.C. government plans to allow it to be cut down in the very near future. Logging the beautiful Stein Valley is irresponsible. It will cost the B.C. tax-payer millions of dollars in direct subsidies the trees are not otherwise worth logging while destroying an irreplaceable wilderness treasure. BUT YOU CAN HELP SAVE THIS WILDERNESS.
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With every adoption you will receive:
First Trees Adopted
The Stein Action Committee completed the first 20 tree adoptions on October 3. The polaroid tree portraits came out beautifully. Five year old Robert Lightfoot assisted, posing with most of the adoptees, holding up the name on the ribbon for the camera.
The first tree was named by its adoptor (surely not Bill?) W. A. C. Bennett. The next was Hum-tree Bogart, then Joey, followed by Sir Laurence Cottonwood III.
Ponderosa pine is the recommended tree most needing adoption. They predominate along the beginning of the proposed logging road right-of-way.
"Because of the costs involved in fighting the expropriation of private farmland for the first few hundred metres of the proposed logging road and the need for more educational material, your adoption is really needed", explained an action commit-tee spokeswoman. "If you can't afford the adoption, any small donation will help. All will be acknowledged and a tax receipt issued with the money immediately put to good use."
Info Picket Brings Results
Stein preservation advocates, returning from the Voices for Wilderness Alpine Festival on Lt Day weekend, set-up an informal picket in front of B.C. Forest ucts office in Vancouver. Con officials met with a delegatic picketers and agreed to a further meeting with those concerned, in ing top officials of the B.C. Forest Ministry.
The company insisted that it is following orders from the Minis] Forests and not taking the lead plans to log the Stein.
Please send tax-deductible donations to:
Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Make checks payable to Western Canada Committee Vilderness Committee (WCWC)-Save The Stein Fund
1200 Hornby Street
Vancouver, B.C.
