Recent development

The St’at’imc and ‘Tsilcot’in Nations have invited the Wilderness Committee to blaze new and repair old trails leading into a sacred valley in the heart of the Chilcotin Mountains north of the gold mining town, Gold Bridge. The sacred valley is called Graveyard, and it is the site of the last battle that occurred between the rival First Nations some 200 years ago.

Giving away our provincial park for a private corporation’s profit

On August 12, the Manitoba government took the shocking step of authorizing the Dickstone South Road, a LOGGING ROAD that will cut Grass River Provincial Park in half! After spending 8 months trumpeting their legislation to finally end park logging in Grass River Provincial Park and three other parks, this decision to allow the logging road is unethical, against the spirit of the Park Logging ban, and against the wishes of the majority of Manitobans.

Photo: Joe Foy, Wilderness Committee - Ivan surveys the camp

I spent the weekend with two of the Wilderness Committee's amazing volunteers, Ivan and his young daughter, Elodie cleaning up the camp at the Clayoquot Arm Bridge Camp, near Tofino.

Photo: Ana Santos, Wild Salmon Action Circle - Jack, Geoff, Tum Tum and Graham doing public outreach.

NEWS RELEASE (Moricetown, BC) - Community opposition to the proposed Enbridge pipeline is growing. Over 200 people from communities along the pipeline route gathered Saturday in Moricetown, BC to discuss the impacts of the proposed mega-project.

From Andy Miller - Staff Scientist

The Seton Community Farm is an aboriginal farm and food security project launched in partnership by the Seton Lake Indian Band and the Wilderness Community in 2005 in an attempt to get more First Nation youth healthy and involved in wilderness protection projects. It began as an offshoot of our project with Toxic Free Canada to help the Seton Lake Band become the first toxic free Indian reserve in Canada!

The campaign to introduce endangered species legislation in BC is going well.  Currently, we have collected over 12,000 signatures (7,000 online and over 5,000 in print).  We also have ei

A mysterious new force has joined the campaign against the Gateway project:  the Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels.

The Wilderness Committee was represented in the first two meetings of the BC Utilities Commission inquiry into long-term transmission development on June 17th and 24th.

I have just returned from being shown around the proposed South Okanagan Similkameen National Park over the course of two days.