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...
Amid forestry struggles, panel finds ‘surprising’ consensus on old-growth logging concerns in B.C.
Two members of a government-appointed panel tell The Narwhal they heard an unexpected level of...
‘The border is this imaginary line’: why Americans are fighting mining in B.C.’s ‘Doughnut Hole’
Logging permits in the Skagit River headwaters, home to intact old-growth forests and species at...
In the wake of Indigenous rights declaration, B.C.’s lawyers make ‘distasteful’ arguments in First Nations title case
The province is arguing the Nuchatlaht, who have never ceded control of their traditional territory...
Left behind: staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations, data reveals
A controversial timber-pricing system may be to blame as forestry companies log the best and...
The Great Bear loophole: why old growth is still logged in B.C.’s iconic protected rainforest
Despite new ‘ecosystem-based’ rules to limit forestry, logging companies continue to find ways to harvest...
‘We’ve been cheated’: Sunshine Coast community braces for logging of forest at heart of park proposal
Despite a legal challenge, a broadly supported park proposal and a community gearing up for...
‘Hundreds of hectares of moonscape’: B.C. spruce beetle infestation used to accelerate clear cuts
The largest spruce beetle epidemic in decades is attacking B.C.’s rain-rich interior, intensifying logging in...
‘Indicative of a truly corrupt system’: government investigation reveals BC Timber Sales violating old-growth logging rules
Two investigations, released under Freedom of Information laws, show a government agency ignored best practices...
