by Wildsight on Wednesday Dec 09 2020
Photo: Wilderness Committee
After significant public pressure, the B.C. government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales (BCTS) have committed to pause logging and road-building in a remote old growth valley north of Revelstoke, which is critical habitat for the North Columbia caribou herd. A total of 276 hectares of proposed logging and more than 10 kilometres of new road will be halted until the provincial mountain caribou herd planning process is complete. Details have remained sparse on the North Columbia herd planning process. Past scientific assessments in the Revelstoke area have recommended that the province increase protection of all old-growth forests in core caribou habitat areas.