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The Living Forest Institute, an environmental advocacy organization motivated by concern about the clearcutting of Sunshine Coast forests, is sponsoring a series of outdoor musical concerts to highlight a vulnerable grove on the hillside above Roberts Creek.
Read MoreA contentious cutblock in the Dakota Bowl area of Mount Elphinstone will be protected under an agreement between Squamish Nation and the province.
The cutblock, known as BC Timber Sales Licence A87126, was removed from the BC Timber Sales operating schedule last year, and it is now off the auction block for timber harvesting entirely.
Read MoreA 360 projection project aims to expose pristine wilderness to audiences far and wide.
Sanctuary: The Dakota Bear Ancient Forest Experience is billed as “an ecological adventure.” It plays as part of PuSh Partner Presentations at this year’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
Read MoreAfter first hiking into the Dakota Bear Sanctuary in August 2013, the environmental group Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) has managed to keep the proposed logging of this ancient forest from occurring.
Read MoreA cutblock in Dakota Bowl on the slopes of Mount Elphinstone, where the existence of 77 culturally modified trees (CMT) was recently confirmed, has been removed from the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) auction list for harvest in 2021.
Powell River-Sunshine Coast MLA Nicholas Simons said in a Facebook post last week that he had “confirmed that TSL A87126 Dakota Bowl is no longer scheduled for sale as published in the 2020 operating plan."
Read MoreForest protection group Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) has been vindicated after an almost 10-year struggle to see yellow cedars in Dakota Bowl recognized as culturally modified trees (CMTs).
BC Timber Sales (BCTS) reversed its position after the BC Archaeology Branch weighed in on the dispute between archeology firms hired by ELF and the province regarding the contested patch of forest in Sḵwxwú7mesh Nation territory on the Sunshine Coast.
Read MoreA new plan plotting the course of the logging industry on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast over the next five years has placed a treasured forest, home to some of Canada’s oldest trees and an unofficial bear sanctuary, on the chopping block.
Read MoreLaurie Bloom of Elphinstone Logging Focus is arrested on Feb. 6 for symbolically blocking loggers on their way to cut trees in the Clack Creek forest on Mount Elphinstone. It was a final gesture of protest in a losing campaign to save the forest, which is now being cut by crews from Black Mount Logging, of Squamish.
Read MoreLogging continues in the Clack Creek Forest cutblock A93884, but members of Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) say there’s still time for the province to order a halt to the harvesting, preserve the area as a potential future park and offer the logging company an alternative site to log.
Read MoreAt least one demonstrator has been arrested following the return of crews from the Squamish-based company Black Mount Logging to the Clack Creek cutblock. Backed by a court injunction against Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), the logging crews resumed cutting on Feb. 4.
Read MoreDemonstrators made a last-ditch effort to save the Clack Creek forest from logging with a 7am march up Mount Elphinstone Jan. 30. Robert Studer, of the Living Forest Institute, centre, helps carry the huge heart he made using lumber wrap and battery-powered lights.
Read MoreSquamish-based Black Mount Logging has been granted an injunction against Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), which has been preventing the company from cutting timber on cutblock A93884, known as the Clack Creek Forest, since Jan. 12. The granting of the injunction followed a protest on Friday, Jan. 24 at the intersection of Highway 101 and the B&K logging road that drew more than 100 people.
Read MoreA colourful protest on the side of Hwy. 101 in Roberts Creek on Jan. 24 drew attention to the imminent logging of the so-called Clack Creek Forest on Mount Elphinstone. About 125 people waved printed heart signs saying they “stand with Clack Creek”. The heart theme is based on the fact that protesters back in October attached a thousand felt hearts to the trees, which loggers began cutting on Jan. 12.
Read MoreThis week on Coast Reporter Radio: Elphinstone Logging Focus and its supporters rally in Roberts Creek in an effort to get the province to step in and stop the harvest of a cutblock on the slopes of Mt Elphinstone and Sophie Woodrooffe gets a tour of the dump.
Read MoreMore than 100 people turned out Friday to protest logging in a cutblock on Mount Elphinstone known as the Clack Creek Forest.
Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), which has prevented the timber harvesting that began Jan. 12 from going any further by putting up a roadblock, organized the protest along with its Living Forest Institute.
Read MoreBefore heading to court against a local logging company, an organizer with a Sunshine Coast protest is calling Squamish’s Black Mount Logging “opportunistic.”
“It would be like a logging company from the Sunshine Coast going over to Squamish and logging a forest that’s right in your community that your own community and regional district have clearly stated that they want to see protected,” said Ross Muirhead of the environmentalist group Elphinstone Logging Focus.
Read MoreBlack Mount Logging of Sqaumish is going to court to seek an injunction against Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF), its two principal members and “John Doe, Jane Doe and Persons Unknown” after its crews were prevented from logging in the Clack Creek area…
Read MoreLogging in the Mt. Elphinstone Park expansion area has begun with road clearing in “The Forest with a 1,000 Hearts”, aka the Clack Creek Forest. This BC Timber Sales Blk A93884 has been deferred for over six years, as the original engineering of the block contained several problems admitted by BCTS…
Read MoreElphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) says it has turned back logging crews heading to work in the area known as the Clack Creek Forest.
ELF has been trying to stop the harvest of cutblock A93884, but a BC Supreme Court judge rejected the group’s petition, filed last April with support from West Coast Environmental Law, against the sale of the cutting rights.
Read MoreBright spots of colour dot Clack Creek Forest on the Sunshine Coast in B.C. The felt hearts affixed to the trees are visually striking symbols of protest as the area awaits the axe—quite literally. Logging rights to the forest were auctioned off to Squamish, B.C.-based Black Mount Logging in May 2019…
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