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Videos
Gwen Barlee on Private Power

This is a short video of the Wilderness Committee's Policy Director, Gwen Barlee as she speaks at the Green Energy...

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Columns
BC Government Proposes Protections for Endangered Douglas Fir forests on Vancouver Island and Sunshine Coast
The Wilderness Committee is calling on its supporters to speak up for the protection of key endangered coastal Douglas...
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Rolling with Mother Nature ‑ Wild Times

January 1st, 2010 - Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel as he tries to look forward into the...

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Change to closed fish farms, ‘snakes’ tell feds
After spouting venom for two days, the “pit of snakes” gave federal fisheries officials one final option – make B.C.’s...
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B.C. parks littered with garbage, human feces: experts
VICTORIA — Cuts in provincial funding have resulted in closed trails, widespread garbage and piles of human waste at...
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Media Releases
Vancouver Island Rainforest Species at High Risk of Extinction
New Sierra Club Report Maps Loss of Critical Species Habitat and Carbon Storage VICTORIA, BC – Decades of old growth...
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B.C.'s old‑growth forests being systematically cut down: Sierra Club
VICTORIA -- The old-growth forests of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast are Canada's most valuable...
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Scientists urge quick action on Fraser sockeye collapse
Urgency too great to wait for results from federal commission of inquiry VANCOUVER — An increasingly hostile marine...
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Independent power costs raise questions about B.C. policy
Depending on whom you choose to believe, a wholesale expansion of British Columbia's electricity supply is either...
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TimberWest says only moderate logging done in Muir Creek, near Sooke
Community environmental leaders lined up yesterday to protest recent logging of second-growth trees on private lands...
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British Columbia
Environmental Group Backs Park Expansion
UCLUELET — A prominent B.C. environmental organization is backing a proposal to expand the boundaries of Pacific Rim...
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Preservation groups alarmed by Muir Creek clear cut
The Muir Creek Protection Society is one component of a joint media event held last Monday at the Best Western Hotel...
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Cosmetic pesticide ban being studied in the BC legislature
A private member’s bill introduced in the BC legislature on November 25, 2009 would ban the sale and use of cosmetic...
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Energy task force members green B.C. Liberal party coffers
NDP environment critic Rob Fleming calls it “a pay-as-you-go system”. The Victoria-Swan Lake MLA is talking about more...
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Columns
First Section of South Fraser Witness Trail Completed
After getting drenched on our last trail expedition, it was a welcome relief to have good weather on Sunday. Eight of...

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