100 signatures reached
To: Premiere David Eby & Minister of Forests, Ravi Parmar & BCTS
PROTECT PEACHLAND'S OLD GROWTH & PRIMARY FORESTS FROM ALL COMMERCIAL LOGGING & PARTIAL CLEARCUTS
BC NDP and BC Timber Sales, the Peachland Watershed old growth and Glen Lake primary forest is no place for any FORESTRY OPERATIONS, stop the planned LOGGING in these at-risk, deferred areas.
Why is this important?
The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance is asking for your support and consideration in assisting the 5,600 Peachland community stakeholders in our efforts to protect the many non-timber values of this land, most notably the critical watershed that supports our entire community and the many residents solely reliant upon the health and productivity of our watershed.
The PWPA is concerned about BC Timber Sales’ (BCTS) plans to LOG three new cut blocks and associated roads the Glen Lake area. We believe that BCTS’ proposed 80+ hectares of partial clear cuts and 4+kms of roads blocks GL-007, GL-008 and GL-009 will have negative effects on our water and wildlife.
When British Columbians, even Peachlanders, visualize old growth, places like Walbran, Carmanah, Clayoquot and Fairy Creek come to mind; towering trees, mossy floors, thick canopies, various species, a shady understory, on the rugged west coast. Did you know, the Peachland watershed holds some of the very same, rarest, at-risk old growth and primary forests left in the BC interior, and the stands that BCTS wants to log may be the last certified old growth in the entire Okanagan that has not been clearcut!
Our concerns range from maintaining our communities’ drinking water quality to drought protection, flood management, and Northern Pygmy Owl habitat. We invite you to sign this petition if you believe your interests may be an " interest that may be affected" adversely by the proposed logging: agriculture, tourism, recreation, hunting, fishing, trapping, foraging, birding, SIGN NOW!
To be clear, the facts indicate that logging in ANY Community Watershed poses an unacceptable risk to both the volume and quality of the waters available to our community during this time of Climate Change and the disruption of historical weather patterns and precipitation (both the amount of precipitation and when it falls). If it WAS safe to log a community watershed they would be logging the hillsides of Vancouver, North Van, Coquitlam and Victoria now!
The PWPA is concerned about BC Timber Sales’ (BCTS) plans to LOG three new cut blocks and associated roads the Glen Lake area. We believe that BCTS’ proposed 80+ hectares of partial clear cuts and 4+kms of roads blocks GL-007, GL-008 and GL-009 will have negative effects on our water and wildlife.
When British Columbians, even Peachlanders, visualize old growth, places like Walbran, Carmanah, Clayoquot and Fairy Creek come to mind; towering trees, mossy floors, thick canopies, various species, a shady understory, on the rugged west coast. Did you know, the Peachland watershed holds some of the very same, rarest, at-risk old growth and primary forests left in the BC interior, and the stands that BCTS wants to log may be the last certified old growth in the entire Okanagan that has not been clearcut!
Our concerns range from maintaining our communities’ drinking water quality to drought protection, flood management, and Northern Pygmy Owl habitat. We invite you to sign this petition if you believe your interests may be an " interest that may be affected" adversely by the proposed logging: agriculture, tourism, recreation, hunting, fishing, trapping, foraging, birding, SIGN NOW!
To be clear, the facts indicate that logging in ANY Community Watershed poses an unacceptable risk to both the volume and quality of the waters available to our community during this time of Climate Change and the disruption of historical weather patterns and precipitation (both the amount of precipitation and when it falls). If it WAS safe to log a community watershed they would be logging the hillsides of Vancouver, North Van, Coquitlam and Victoria now!
These once vast original forests, including groves many thousands of years old, have been logged with little thought to maintaining any other values except volume of trees extracted, and shareholder profits. Over successive generations of governments, BC has failed to protect its globally unique ecosystems contributing to Canada’s inability to meet its global commitments to climate change, biodiversity or forest degradation.