Flores Island, the largest island in the heart of Clayoquot Sound, is the home to some of the world’s last remaining spectacular old-growth temperate rainforests and it is at risk from logging.

Iisaak Forest Resources is seeking permits for helicopter log-drop zones in the waters off the east side of the Island.

What makes this so alarming is that back in 1999 Iisaak signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a coalition of environmental groups including the Wilderness Committee that was intended to end the “war in the woods.” The core of this agreement is the identification of unprotected intact watersheds areas that were to be off limits from logging. The forest on Flores Island that Iissak is seeking to log is in one of those areas.

Iisaak has already been granted a logging road permit on Flores and these new applications are an alarming development. The fate of these ecologically important forests is now in grave doubt.

We cannot allow chainsaws to threaten Clayoquot’s old-growth giants ever again! Join us in taking action to save these national treasures.

Please go to our website and use the letter writing tool to send your message to Premier Christy Clark, Minister of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations Steve Thomson and the Lands Officer--South Island Forest District who currently have the helicopter log-drop zone permit applications on their desk.

Thank you for taking action.

Sven Biggs | Outreach Director
Wilderness Committee