Summer 2026 article roundup from IWTF

If you missed it, we’ve been collecting news, letters, and webinars on forests, logging, and water. Here are the highlights:

Society urges pointed public comment on pending plan for forest landscape, by Timothy Schafer for Castanet

“The truth about forest thinning,” a webinar with Dr. Chad Hanson and Stephen Kropp, from the Legacy Forest Defense Coalition

Logging coming to Little Slocan Lakes, a two-minute video update from Kootenay Forest Watch, based in Castlegar

Local orchardists propose drilling into Okanagan aquifer to alleviate drought, by the Vancouver Island Water Watch Coalition

Connecting the dots between clearcut logging and droughts, a micro-site by CodeBlueBC

Vernon gets approval for reclaimed water uses, eyes Goose Lake connection, by Brendan Shykora for The Morning Star (Editor’s note: in this article, Shykora references several causes of drought, including below-average snowpack runoff, reduced spring precipitation, and continued warm, dry weather forecasts. While true, we’re disappointed that clearcut logging was not also mentioned as a contributor to the ongoing drought our region is facing.)

Inside Climate column: What does it mean to say that water is sacred?, by IWTF member Eli Pivnick, for Castanet (From Eli: “In our current drought and wildfire threat, I have been thinking more about the importance of, and our attitude towards water.”)

Columbia Shuswap Regional District has placed Falkland on Stage 4 water restrictions, by Darren Handschuh for Castanet

The long-term solution to wildfires begins in the riparian forest, by Don Elzer for The Forest Almanac (on Substack)

Feedback from Conservation North to the Lakes Resilience Forest Landscape Plan

4theloveofbc – An excellent resource for tracking all clearcut logging blocks in BC, developed by Kootenay activist Keenan Dennehy. In their words, “I felt that the story I wanted people to know wasn’t being told. I create videos intended to foster a sense of responsibility, reverence, curiosity and awareness of what we have and what we are losing in BC.”