June 6 (Reuters) - Since August 2020 protesters have been blockading logging roads near the Fairy Creek drainage on western Vancouver Island. The dispute has reignited a debate on whether there should ...
This nearly 3,000-acre Fairy Creek watershed is unprotected, other than by a two-year deferral on cutting enacted last June at the request of several First Nations. But the old-growth trees ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Officials on Tuesday announced plans to temporarily close the upper portion of Fairy Lake Road as ...
The battle at Fairy Creek, a fight over some of the planet’s oldest trees, has raged for two summers and has led to the most arrests ever for a protest in modern Canadian history. At stake is some of ...
BOZEMAN, Mont. — A temporary road closure will start Sunday evening in a popular recreation area outside of Bozeman. The upper gate on Fairy Lake Road will close to all uses, including foot traffic, ...
The fight to stop loggers from cutting down old-growth trees in Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island has been going on for more than a year now. As of this week, the RCMP have arrested about 1,100 ...
CALGARY, Alberta, June 6 (Reuters) - Nolan Paquette started working part-time at his local sawmill more than 20 years ago while still at school, pushing a broom on the clean-up team. Now 38, Paquette ...
The Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht, and Pacheedaht First Nations formally gave notice to the B.C. government they were deferring old-growth logging for two years. Gowlland Tod Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, ...
The enforcement methods of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led a court to deny a logging company’s request to extend an injunction. By Ian Austen This week, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ...
A massive old growth red cedar stump measuring 4.5 m in diameter recently found in a clearcut in a tributary of the Gordon River, near Port Renfrew, BC. 90% of Vancouver Island's valley bottom ...
CALGARY, Alberta, June 6 (Reuters) - Nolan Paquette started working part-time at his local sawmill more than 20 years ago while still at school, pushing a broom on the clean-up team. Now 38, Paquette ...