The BC gov. is destroying old-growth rainforest with your tax dollars
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The BC government is destroying old-growth rainforest with your tax dollars
Call today and tell them to stop!
Dear Paov,
Earlier this month, we travelled up to Schmidt Creek, a remote watershed on northeastern Vancouver Island.
What we saw up there was disturbing.
Fresh roads punched into some of the last original old-growth rainforests on the Island.
Massive cutblocks laid out and set for imminent clearcutting on steep slopes in an already-impacted watershed.
Erosion and a high risk of landslides just inland from critically important orca habitat.
Which corporation is behind this, you ask?
Believe it or not, this is the work of BC Timber Sales (BCTS), a government agency paid for with your tax dollars.
Schmidt Creek is in Tlowitsis-Ma’amtagila territory next to the Lower Tsitika River Provincial Park and the legendary Robson Bight Ecological Reserve. Unfortunately, it’s just one of several endangered old-growth rainforests being liquidated by BCTS.
We’re calling on the BC government to immediately stop issuing old-growth permits through BCTS – will you join us?
Call BC forests minister Doug Donaldson today, and let him know that it’s time for the BC government to stop logging old-growth!
