Category: news
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BC community sounds the alarm on salvage logging – Kelowna Now
This important article, reported by Luke Faulks, focuses on the community of Gun Lake and residents’ concerns about the threat of salvage logging proposed in an area that experienced wildfire in 2023. “a meta review of research into the ecological impacts of salvage logging found the practice can hamper species that survived the fire, modify rare post-disturbance…
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Lobbying for Change – an inspiring video by Ross Reid
We love Ross Reid’s Nerdy About Nature channel! He’s a passionate and knowledgeable advocate for forests. Check out his recent video about lobbying for change. “If we didn’t have the power to make change, then these industries wouldn’t spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to try and suppress our voices and make us all…
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BC’s forest industry impacting hydrological cycle
This piece was originally published on Castanet on September 30, 2025. Do you remember the hydrological cycle that you learned about in school? Rain and snow fall from the sky. Tree leaves and branches slow the fall of rain. In the spring, snow slowly melts, the melt slowed because trees shade the snow and cool…
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Trouble in the Headwaters 2025: Call to Action
Thank you for attending ‘Trouble In the Headwaters.’ Here’s how you can help!
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The New Forest Act Proposal at a glance – tips and talking points
The new Forest Act Proposal A bold is a legislative proposal that redefines forestry in BC to serve long-term public interest—rooted in economic renewal, protection of the most biodiverse and healthy ecosystems, restoration of degraded areas, and community governance.
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BC’s forestry crisis – the laws we need to make things better (video)
Our colleagues at the Boundary Forest Watershed Stewardship Society have a new video out, talking about a new forest act for BC. Listen in to hear Jennifer Houghton speak about logging on public lands, and how we need to create a new paradigm where it concerns BC’s forestry legislation.
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‘The Future of Water,’ by Andrew Findlay in BC Mag
This article was sent to us by IWTF members and features our colleague, Younes Alila, a UBC scientist in the Faculty of Forestry who specializes in forest hydrology. ‘But the term “natural disaster” is misleading, says Younes Alila, a University of British Columbia scientist in the Faculty of Forestry specializing in forest hydrology. Alila also closely…
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Mt. Willet Wilderness needs our support
We received the following letter from Gary Diers, of Mt. Willet Wilderness Forever, requesting support to help save The Argenta Face, within the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park. Dear Argenta Face Supporters, It is not every day that one sees a White Grizzly in their backyard. Yet, I had the great fortune last fall to…
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Water rights and water fights: new article from The Narwhal sheds light on the connection between logging and water, featuring one Kootenay community
Glade Watershed Protection, an advocacy group based in the Kootenay region of BC and IWTF member, was featured in a recent Narwhal piece. Wynndel is about halfway between Nelson and Cranbrook in the Kootenays in southeast British Columbia. Private logging is widespread in the region. Some communities have tried pushing back, but their efforts have…
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Fighting for BC’s Last Wild Forests with Michelle Connolly (Power of Forest Series #5)
From our colleagues at the Boundary Forest Watershed Stewardship Society comes the fifth in their ‘Power of Forests’ lecture series. Dear Forest Lover, Did you know that populations of vertebrate animals—mammals, birds, and more—have dropped by 69% since 1970? A major driver of this biodiversity crisis is the destruction of intact, primary forests. In her…