Western Canada Wilderness Committee - 2000/2001 Press Releases
 
Archives 1999

BLACK DAY FOR ANCIENT FOREST CONSERVATION IN BC
October 4, 2001

GRIZZLY BEAR AND MARMOT HEAD TO OTTAWA IN MINI-VAN
September 19, 2001

MARBLED MURRELET SWOOPS INTO BC SUPREME COURT
September 18, 2001

CONSERVATIONISTS TO TAKE B.C. GOVERNMENT TO COURT FOLLOWING CONTROVERSIAL APPROVAL OF LOGGING PLANS THAT ENDANGER OWLS
September 5, 2001

WILDERNESS COMMITTEE WINS ANOTHER ONE WEEK INJUNCTION PROHIBITING CATTERMOLE TIMBER FROM LOGGING SPOTTED OWL HABITAT NEAR YALE BC
July 9, 2001

SUPREME COURT EXTENDS INJUNCTION BARRING LOGGING OF FOREST INHABITED BY ENDANGERED SPOTTED OWL
June 26, 2001

WILDERNESS COMMITTEE APPLAUDES SQUAMISH NATION'S LAND USE PLAN
June 21, 2001

BC SUPREME COURT GRANTS TEMPORARY INJUNCTION TO HALT LOGGING TO SAVE SPOTTED OWLS
June 20, 2001

WCWC GRANTS NEW GOVERNMENT "HONEYMOON CHANCE " TO PROVE ITSELF
June 5, 2001

WESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEE TELLS LEGISLATORS TO IMPROVE CANADA'S PROPOSED ENDANGERED SPECIES LAW - OR GET RID OF IT
May 15, 2001

CANDIDATES ANSWERS TO WILDERNESS COMMITTEE ENVIRONMENTAL POLL CONTAIN A FEW SURPRISES!
May 11, 2001

WILDERNESS COMMITTEE CHALLENGES BC MLA CANDIDATES TO RESPOND TO ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY
May 5, 2001

WCWC CELEBRATES NDP DECISION TO CREATE A BIG SOUTH CHILCOTIN MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS PARK BY PUBLISHING A "THANK YOU" POSTER
April 18, 2001

DRINKING WATER PROTECTION ACT - BILL 20: BUREAUCRATIC JUNGLE PAWNED-OFF AS A SOLUTION
April 9, 2001

GREAT BEAR LAND USE ANNOUNCEMENT
April 5, 2001

WILDERNESS COMMITTEE BIKE BUS TO GIVE FIRST-TIME BIKE COMMUTERS HELPING HAND DURING TRANSIT STRIKE
March 30, 2001

WCWC HOPEFUL THAT SQUAMISH NATION CAN RESOLVE CONFLICT IN THE ELAHO
March 2, 2001

BCās REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL FORESTERS HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO MANAGE BC'S FORESTS FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
February 23, 2001

PUBLIC ONLY GIVEN TWO WEEKS TO INPUT ON MASSIVE NDP PUBLIC FOREST LAND GIVEAWAY
February 21, 2001

ELAHO DEFENDERSā HARSH SENTENCES REDUCED BY BC COURT OF APPEAL
February 20, 2001

ELAHO DEFENDER IN BC COURT OF APPEAL
February 20, 2001

WCWC CONDEMS NDP GOVERNMENT PLAN TO GIVE CORPORATIONS IRON-CLAD CONTROL OVER BCāS PUBLIC FOREST LANDS
February 15, 2001

HUNDREDS SPEAK OUT FOR THE RAINSHADOW WILDERNESS AT PACKED PLANETARIUM MEETING
February 13, 2001

TIMBERGATE!
January 29, 2001

Loggers Sentenced in Elaho Valley Beatings
January 4, 2001

Western Canada Wilderness Committee meets Weyerhaeuser Senior Executives to discuss future of lot #10 and the Little Qualicum River Floodplain
December 13, 2000

WCWC pledges $1,000 to help save Wildwood, World-famous eco-forester Merve Wilkinson's Sustained Yield Woodcut on Vancouver Island
December 13, 2000

Amnesty International 5th Annual Film Festival to Feature Hood and the Woods
November 09, 2000

Five hundred environmentalists rally at Provincial Legislature
September 30, 2000

WCWC pickets outside "OPERATION DEFEND"
September 21, 2000

BLACK DAY FOR CANADA
September 15, 2000
WCWC Demands Apology for "Chicken Bone Assault"
September 12, 2000

WCWC Rallys in Support in Greenpeace
September 8, 2000

WCWC's demands that Premier Dosanjh revoke Interfor's logging privileges in B.C. Public Forests
September 6, 2000

INTERFOR MOVES IN TO LOG PART OF RARE THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD DOUGLAS FIR GROVE IN THE UPPER ELAHO VALLEY!
August 3, 2000

B.C. Supreme Court grants Interfor an injunction in an attempt to remove civil disobedient protesters from oldgrowth forest cutblocks north of Lava Creek in the Upper Elaho (part of the proposed Stoltmann National Park).
July 28, 2000

Supreme Court ruling strikes down injunction granted to Interfor last September in the Elaho Valley÷one used to arrest citizens for blocking roads and sitting in trees trying to save 1000-year-old trees

WCWC disappointed with Squamish Nationās decision to allow Interfor to log and roadbuild north of Lava Creek in an area world famous for its thousand-year-old-trees
May 29, 2000

DRACONIAN SENTENCES HANDED DOWN TODAY COULD SPUR SECOND CLAYOQUOT IN ELAHO VALLEY
May 27, 2000

WCWC re-establishes Millennial Tree Research Camp north of Lava Creek in the Upper Elaho Valley of the Stoltmann Wilderness
May 26,2000

Interfor escalates the "War in the Woods" in the Upper Elaho Valley of the Stoltmann Wilderness
May 24, 2000

Interfor fuels "War In The Woods" by ending its moratorium on logging north of lava creek in the Stoltmann Wilderness
May 19, 2000

CHAINSAW MASSACRE IN THE ELAHO VALLEY!
May 11, 2000

Federal government bogs down Burns Bog negotiation
May 4, 2000

Discovery of Video Tape in Lava Creek Sparks Environmentalists Tape Rush
May 2, 2000

Will they listen to 27,000 people? Read WCWC's letter, written on behalf of our 27,000 members, opposing Interfor's year 2000 plans to road and log the Elaho
April 28, 2000

Interfor employees "misled" the court and threatened environmentalists to obtain court-ordered injunction no-go zone in the Elaho Valley in 1999
April 12, 2000

Another Grossly Inadequate Endangered Species Act Launched In House Of Commons
April 11, 2000

Civil hearing on Elaho Valley injunction follows startling revelations
April 10, 2000

The Truth Out Is Out There -- Interfor Manager Derek Sayle Testifies He Ordered The Video Of Loggers' Assault In The Elaho Be Destroyed
April 6, 2000

Stress, Lies and Videotape - Interfor Employee Admits to Lying in Elaho 13 Court Case
April 4, 2000

Year 2000 Roe Herring Fisheries A Disaster
April 3, 2000

Great Bear Rainforest "Peace in the Woods" Agreement Will Fail
March 23, 2000

Stoltmann Wilderness International Day of Action
March 13, 2000

Time to stop the Rape of the Strait as fishers take 12 Thousand Tons of Roe Herring
March 10, 2000
 

WCWC Strongly Condemns Those who Claimed to Spike Trees in the Elaho Valley
February 18, 2000

Overwhelming response from Lower Mainland conservationists fills a three-bus-convoy to public meeting in Lillooet
February 17, 2000

WCWC Pleased Assault Charges Have been Laid in Elaho Case
February 17, 2000

WCWC Thrilled To See Clayoquot Sound Designated A U.N. Biosphere Reserve
February 11, 2000

Rally to Save Burns Bog, WCWC Demands Governments Purchase Bog
January 27, 2000

BC Civil Liberties Association Intervenes on behalf of WCWC against the Elaho Injunction
January 19, 2000

WCWC Court Case to Quash Interfor's Injunction Postponed to March 27, 2000
January 19, 2000

WCWC in BC Supreme Court to Quash Interfor's Injunction Hindering Access to the Stoltmann Wilderness
January 18, 2000

Bear Expert Wayne McCrory Intervenes on behalf of WCWC in favour of Elaho preservation
January 17, 2000