A glimmer of hope for dwindling Kootenay caribou and biodiversity
by Wildsight on Wednesday Dec 09 2020 Photo: Wilderness Committee After significant public pressure, the B.C. government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales (BCTS) have committed to pause logging and road-building in a remote old growth valley north of Revelstoke, which is critical habitat for the North Columbia caribou herd. A total of 276 hectares of proposed logging and more than 10 kilometres of new road will be halted until the provincial mountain caribou h...
British Columbia Thomas Knowles Charlotte Dawe Eddie Petryshen Wilderness Committee Echo Conservation Society
Source: rosslandtelegraph.com