Tag: watershed
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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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IWTF meets with the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship
On May 2, 2026, IWTF members met with Minister Randene Neill (Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (WLRS)) and Harwinder Sandhu, MLA for Vernon-Lumby. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss water and forestry legislation that recognizes water’s primary value to the watersheds supplying IWTF communities. IWTF came to the table requesting three…
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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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Syilx Chiefs and Local Leaders Sign Historic Agreement to Address Water Issues Across the Okanaganand Similkameen Watersheds
Media release by the Syilx Okanagan Nation Alliance, November 15, 2024 Snpink’tn, Penticton, Syilx Territory: Today, at a historic gathering, Chiefs of the Syilx Nation, Mayors, councillors and Regional Districts representatives signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to protect siwɬkʷ, water. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is the first time that elected leaders from the…