June 6 (Reuters) - Since August 2020 protesters have been blockading logging roads near the Fairy Creek drainage on western Vancouver Island. The dispute has reignited a debate on whether there should ...
On September 28, a ruling by the British Columbia Supreme Court effectively removed police forces from the front lines of the Fairy Creek blockades, a 14-month-long act of civil disobedience dedicated ...
The Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht, and Pacheedaht First Nations formally gave notice to the B.C. government they were deferring old-growth logging for two years. Gowlland Tod Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, ...
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Nolan Paquette started working part-time at his local sawmill more than 20 years ago while still at school, pushing a broom on the clean-up team. Now 38, Paquette drives ...
The battle at Fairy Creek, a fight over some of the planet’s oldest trees, has raged for two summers and has led to the most arrests ever for a protest in modern Canadian history. At stake is some of ...
A massive old growth red cedar stump measuring 4.5 m in diameter recently found in a clearcut in a tributary of the Gordon River, near Port Renfrew, BC. 90% of Vancouver Island's valley bottom ...