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Future of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park hinges on plan expected in 2015
B.C. Parks accepting public input on development of draft management plan VETERAN ENVIRONMENTALIST ELAINE Golds likes...
Peat Mining in Park Ended by Province
The era of peat mining in Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park is over. The province has taken the step through a recent...
Turning heads and hearts on Burnaby Mountain
The Georgia Straight By Eoin Madden November 6, 2014 As you read these words, a diverse and dedicated group of Burnaby...
B.C. landowners group launches second legal challenge in bid to quash Site C dam
VANCOUVER — A group of B.C. landowners has taken legal action to quash the federal government’s approval of the...
Documenting Kinder Morgan’s work on Burnaby Mountain
November 6, 2014 The Wilderness Committee’s resident mapper Geoff Senichenko and colleague JP LeFrank headed out to...
Wilderness Committee calls on municipal candidates to stand up for bees
News Release - November 4, 2014 WC urges candidates to pledge to ban ornamental plants treated with dangerous “neonic”...
Coquitlam conservationist honoured with Wilderness Committee Environmental Award
News Release - November 1, 2014 VANCOUVER – The Wilderness Committee is proud to announce that Port Coquitlam...
Wilderness Committee calls on Kinder Morgan to stop bullying Burnaby residents
News Release - October 31, 2014 VANCOUVER – The Wilderness Committee is expressing sympathy today for Burnaby...
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Here at the Wilderness Committee, autumn is one of our favourite times of the year. Why? Because it’s time for us to...
Vancouver park board institutes pesticide ban to help save honeybees
The skinny Vancouver’s park board will no longer plant or purchase plants treated with a class of pesticides...
Vancouver Island coal mine proposal back from the dead
October 30, 2014 In early October, provincial environmental regulators received word that the application for the...
Greenprint: Our Plan for Nopiming Park
October 29, 2014 When I tell people about Manitoba, of the wondrous nature that I know and cherish, I speak about my...
Site C: Peace River landowners seek judicial review of hydro dam plan
A group of landowners from B.C.'s Peace River region have filed an application for judicial review in B.C. Supreme...
Endangered turtles released in Burnaby Lake
INTO THE WILD They were the last of the wee ones. On Tuesday, three biologists released the four remaining Western...
South Okanagan national park proposal just makes sense
It doesn’t appear the Liberal government in B.C. has been measurably moved by growing calls for the province to rejoin...
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