Tag: clearcut logging
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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…
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New study finds clear-cut logging can dramatically increase flood risk
This newest research, co-authored by Spencer Pearson-Atkins, Younes Alila, and Xu Jian Yu, supports longstanding claims that commercial forestry intensifies negative hydrology; it especially mentions droughts and floods in the Okanagan. Journal article via ScienceDirect. News story via The Conversation. “We studied a watershed on the west shore of Lake Okanagan near Summerland, British Columbia. Around…
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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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Trouble in the Headwaters: a documentary film screening event in Kelowna
Trouble in the Headwaters is a hard-hitting documentary that investigates the 2018 Grand Forks flood and reveals the connection to clearcut logging in the headwaters of the Kettle River Basin.