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Activists hail park logging ban
The bubbly was popping and suds flowing Friday as local environmentalists celebrated the Doer government's sudden...
Rallies planned to stop logging
AN environmental group hasn't given up the fight to stop logging in provincial parks in Manitoba -- one of the last...
Mass species die-off in Whiteshell Provincial Park
Clams dead in secluded lake near logging operations in Whiteshell Provincial Park The Wilderness Committee is...
Paddle to the Premier: Say No to The Site C Dam!
First Nations, Concerned Community Members to Rally Against Site “C” DamFort St. John , BC - On Sunday, September 19...
TV News Story - Vancouver Island Coal Mine Protest Taken to Prime Minister Harper
The Prime Minister's visit to Nanaimo today was the second stop on Stephen Harper's tour of Vancouver Island. Earlier...
Kwantlen Students ask Minister Penner & Surrey Mayor Watts to Promise No New Garbage Incinerator
The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) opposes the plan to buy a new waste incinerator in Metro Vancouver and they are...
Join us September 19th and help stop the Site C dam!
On September 19th at 10:00, join us for the Paddle to the Premier and help stop the Site C dam! Early this summer I...
Clayoquot Zipline Report
See this 10 minute Wilderness Committee 2010 August on the ground report from the opening of the West Coast Wild...
WestCoast Wild Zipline Opens
Like a scene from Avatar, a crowd of people spent Wednesday afternoon flying with arms outstretched through old-growth...
News Ziplining Past the 'War in the Woods'
More than 25 years after clashes over Clayoquot Sound's old growth forests pitted First Nations against industry, a...
TV News Story - The fight to protect the Red Creek Fir
This is a short TV news report from September 2010 about the logging that is endangering Earth's largest Douglas fir...
Red Creek Fir Report
See this September 2010 short on the ground report from the Wilderness Committee about logging that is coming too...
Prime Minister Must Save Fish Lake, Say 12 Environmental Groups
Final Decision Pending on Fate of B.C. Lake Sacred to First Nations Vancouver, BC-Twelve environmental groups are...
TV News Story - The fight to protect Fish Lake
See this September 2010 news report about the fight to protect Fish Lake from a proposed open pit mine. 12...
Rewilding Canada - Wild Times
September 1st, 2010 - Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel as he considers what it will take to...
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