Today BC Hydro moved forward with the environmental assessment for the Site C Dam project. The mega-dam project also has a new, higher estimated cost of almost $8 billion. There is significant opposition to Site C from environmentalists, First Nations, farmers and others in the Peace River Valley and across the province. “Site C is [...] Read more »

Last month, when we alerted you to new threats of logging on Flores Island in the heart of Clayoquot Sound, you responded with more than a thousand letters asking the provincial government to prevent road construction. Now we are asking you to join us to take a stand against another serious threat to Clayoquot Sound. [...] Read more »

Stretching from the east side of Manitoba’s Lake Winnipeg far into the province of Ontario is one of the greatest natural areas left on earth. The Heart of the Boreal is a vast wilderness filled with jack pine-covered granite ridges, black spruce and tamarack lowlands, and more lakes than you can imagine. Over sixty First [...] Read more »

The campaign to protect the wild lands in the Lillooet Region. The Wilderness Committee currently works together with the St’at’imc and the Tsilhqot’in Nation on protection of wilderness and strengthening of native practices and culture in the Cayoosh, Bendor, and South Chilcotin mountain ranges. Often referred to as the Rainshadow Wilderness, the Lands of the [...] Read more »

British Columbia, Canada is home to some of the Earth’s most spectacular, ancient temperate forests, including the world’s largest Douglas fir tree (the Red Creek Fir) and second-largest western red cedar tree (the Cheewhat Cedar). These old-growth forests are diverse: from wet rainforests with towering, mossy Sitka spruce trees and gnarly red cedars with trunks [...] Read more »

Evidence of ecosystem mismanagement in BC’s lower Fraser River region abounds. This region in the southwest of British Columbia encompasses the areas commonly referred to as the Fraser Canyon, the Fraser Valley, the Harrison Lake area, the Chilliwack Lake area, the Skagit Valley and the Manning Park area. The wildlife species that best indicates healthy [...] Read more »

Fish Lake (Teztan Biny in the Tsilhqot’in language) is a mountain lake, located on the Chilcotin Plateau, 125 kilometers west of Williams Lake British Columbia, Canada. Fish Lake and the Chilcotin Plateau are within Tsilhqot’in First Nation territory. Fish Lake, as you would expect from its name, is amazing fishing for rainbow trout and has [...] Read more »

The Wilderness Committee has worked on boreal forest research and protection for decades. We were inspired to take action because the boreal forest makes up over half of Canada, is threatened on multiple levels by numerous industrial activities such as the tar sands, and has many wildlife and plants that are declining. In response to [...] Read more »

It’s one of Canada’s greatest conservation opportunities! It’s the campaign to protect Canada’s desert, grasslands and ponderosa pine forests in southern BC. The federal and BC governments are currently looking at establishing a new national park reserve in the hot, dry South Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys around the towns of Osoyoos and Keremeos in southern [...] Read more »

Since the early 1980s the Wilderness Committee has been working with like-minded environmental groups to protect the intact ancient forested valleys of Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island. We are seeking protection for about 60,000 hectares of ancient forests. In April 2011 the principal logging company in Clayoquot Sound, Iisaak Forest Resources, [...] Read more »