Larry Pynn
Larry Pynn is a veteran environmental journalist, the recipient of some 30 writing awards, including eight Jack Webster Awards. He is the author of two non-fiction books — Last Stands and The Forgotten Trail — and is a member of the New York-based Explorers Club. He lives in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island.
Stories by Larry Pynn
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s scientific advice undermined by industry and political influence: researchers
7 min. readIn a new paper, researchers from UBC, Dalhousie call for an independent advisory body to...
B.C. Cattlemen’s Association dispatches trappers to kill wolves under provincially funded program
Trappers collected more than $500,000 for killing nearly 700 wolves over past four years —...
At the end of the forest: a former Vancouver Island mill town’s struggle for reinvention
Tahsis was built to support the province’s once-booming logging industry. Now, amid industry closures and...
If you cause a wildfire in B.C., be ready to pay for the cost of fighting it
On April 7, 2012, Brian Cecil Parke ignited an enormous burn pile on his property...
Fine for death of three Western Forest Products’ workers criticized as inadequate
WorkSafeBC fined the company $29,000 for a ‘high-risk violation’ — about $10,000 per life —...
B.C.’s natural resource officers unequipped to deal with forestry and wildfire crimes: special investigation
The province’s watchdog on logging operations says that, despite repeated warnings, little has been done...
‘It just takes too damn long’: How Canada’s law for protecting at-risk species is failing
It can take years for declining plant and animal species to make it on to...
Canada obliged to protect future generations from climate change, test case on carbon tax hears
Young people ‘will live their entire lives under the mounting environmental, economic, and health stresses’...
B.C. launches first ever rules to regulate fossils
From dinosaur bones to ancient plant life, hundreds of thousands of fossils have been taken...
