Help protect Manning and Skagit Parks

Details: Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00; Written by editor

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Stop logging in Manning and Skagit parks!

Dear Paov,

Acting on a tip I recently lead a Wilderness Committee fact-finding expedition into the heart of Manning and Skagit Provincial Parks into an area known as the Manning Park “Donut Hole.” What we found was shocking.

BC Timber Sales (BCTS), the government's own logging operation, is gouging logging roads through snow slide areas to get at groves of trees clinging to high mountain slopes. Not only is this area a priority for grizzlies but the lower slopes are important for spotted owl recovery. BCTS is barging in here with no care for wilderness or wildlife.

Write to Stop Logging! Because of a pre-existing mining claim, this area was not granted park protection back in 1996, even though it is completely surrounded by provincial parklands and is important habitat for threatened species.

The BC government has always said that when the mineral tenure could be purchased then the Donut Hole would be added to the provincial parks system. Now BCTS has pushed into the Manning Park Donut Hole and is actively building a network of logging roads!

Your voice is needed to protect this forest from clearcuts.

Please write the ministers in charge of forests and of parks today. Tell them to stop cutting the heart out of Manning and Skagit provincial parks. Write Now Look below for a map of logging in the Manning Park Donut Hole.

For the wild,

Joe Foy | Co-Executive Director
Wilderness Committee

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