Logging YOUR watershed lands

Wednesday, July 15, 1992
This is a 1992 Wilderness Committee education report that calls for an end to logging in Victoria's drinking water supply watersheds.

This campaign met with success when logging ended in the Greater Victoria watersheds after a Supreme Court decision in April 1994, where Justice Melnick found the former Greater Victoria Water District guilty of “illegally” logging the Sooke and Goldstream watersheds since the 1950s.  

See the full report...