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This entire valley, about 26 miles southeast of Hope, British Columbia, drains into the headwaters of the Skagit River, the most important salmon producer in Puget Sound.

Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

British Columbia says it will no longer log in Skagit headwaters key to Puget Sound

Dec 04, 2019

Plans for renewed logging and mining near E.C. Manning and Skagit Valley provincial parks are raising fears of environmental damage on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border

Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

Government halts logging in Skagit River Valley

Dec 04, 2019

A small lake below Silverdaisy Peak in the "doughnut hole".

Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

B.C. bans logging in sensitive border area after urging from Seattle mayor

Dec 04, 2019

BC Forestry Reform

Safety concerns halt meeting of forestry workers, environmentalists in Campbell River

Nov 26, 2019

Southern Mountain Caribou

Debate over the decline of caribou in Wells Gray

Nov 08, 2019

Photo: Sol Allison Former Xatsull (Soda Creek) Chief Bev Sellars speaking last week at the event in Manning Park

Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

First Nations oppose mining work

Oct 31, 2019

Jordan, a Kaska land guardian, conducts water sampling along the Kechika River in northern B.C. Photo: Taylor Roades / The Narwhal

Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

Groups call on B.C. to fund Indigenous monitoring of mines in traditional territories

Oct 30, 2019

Manitoba Climate Action

Storm response positive, but longer view on climate needed

Oct 25, 2019

Photo: Jodie Wilson-Raybould/Twitter

B.C. introduces legislation to align its laws, policies with United Nations’ Indigenous rights declaration

Oct 24, 2019

Skagit Headwaters Donut Hole

"Like some giant machine that could not be turned off"

Oct 08, 2019

No Trans Mountain Pipeline

Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion potential to be key B.C. issue in federal election

Oct 05, 2019

Photo: Burning Hearts Media and Wildlife Defence League

Southern Mountain Caribou

U.S. lists B.C. caribou as endangered while province approves logging in critical habitat

Oct 04, 2019