Hike raises awareness of bluffs

Friends of Stillwater Bluffs hosted a group of 50 people and 10 dogs on a hike around Stillwater Bluffs on Sunday April 15. It was part of an awareness-raising campaign that this area needs to be protected before Island Timberlands follows through on its plans to log it.

News Coverage
Ancient Forest Alliance

Celebrating Earth Day By the Sea and Supporting the Ancient Forest Alliance

SeaFlora, Wild Organic Seaweed Skincare, enters their 10th season of Wild Seaweed Tours starting this Sunday April 22nd from 9am to 11am at the Whiffin Spit Parking Lot with all proceeds donated to support the Ancient Forest Alliance.

Announcements

Creatively United for the Planet Supports the Ancient Forest Alliance

Happening this weekend to celebrate Earth Week!
When:  April 20-22, 2012
Where: 600 Richmond Ave at Richardson (St Matthias)
 

The festival will raise needed funds for progressive environmental-based charities, including the Ancient Forest Alliance, while heightening awareness and initiating action for positive change in an entertaining and engaging way.

Announcements

Benefit Concert and Presentation for the Elphinstone Logging Focus

When:  Saturday, April 14
Where:  Roberts Creek Community Hall, Sunshine Coast
Time:  7:30 to 10:00 pm

Come join us for a fun evening of music, vibrant nature images, silent auction, and an opportunity to build community while supporting efforts by Elphinstone Logging Focus to raise awareness and protect local Sunshine Coast at risk forests.

Announcements
San Juan Spruce tree and the Red Creek Fir - some of the Canada's largest trees found right nearby!

TONIGHT! Natural History Presentation: Ancient Forests of BC – Ecology and Politics

The Victoria Natural History Society invites you to join the Ancient Forest Alliance¹s Ken Wu and TJ Watt tonight for a spectacular slideshow and talk on the ecology, wildlife, and politics of old-growth forests including Avatar Grove, Walbran Valley, Clayoquot Sound, McLaughlin Ridge, and the newly found Mossy Maple Rainforest (aka "Fangorn Forest").

Tonight, Tues. April 10th at 7:30 p.m. Room 159 of the Fraser building, UVIC

Announcements
This Easter egg is loaded with over $220 worth of gift certificates courtesy of local restaurants and cafes!

Easter Egg Gift Basket Raffle for the AFA!

Now until Easter, enter to win a gift basket containing a giant dark chocolate Easter egg, and loaded with gift certificates courtesy of local restaurants and cafes. The estimated value of this gift basket is over $220!

Come on down to the Italian Bakery at 3197 Quadra st. in Victoria!

Announcements

Big Bass not Big Stumps! Featuring the musical stylings of: Grandpa Phunk, Nagdeo, 5am, and Commoddity

When:  Saturday, March 24th
Time:  7 pm
Where:  Felicita's Pub at UVic

Come get your groove on, bring your friends, and join us for a night of SUB-atomic glitch hop, dubstep, and other bass heavy sounds with some of Vancouver and Victoria's hottest DJs!

Announcements
Photo by TJ Watt

Harper changes the rules for the environment

Overfishing was partly to blame for the loss of salmon, Proctor said. So was predation by seals, sea lions and dolphins. But particularly galling was the free for-all in the forest industry: bridges and culverts disrupting streams, mudslides silting up the spawning gravel, the shock of blasting for road building killing roe.

News Coverage

Minister costing logging jobs, critics say

B.C. Forests Minister Steve Thomson has overruled recommendations from his own advisory board on log exports dozens of times in the past three months, electing to send millions of dollars worth of raw logs to Asia rather than local mills.

News Coverage

Bluffs receive high-profile focus

A campaign to protect Stillwater Bluffs south of Powell River received high-profile help from a provincial organization recently.

Jason Addy, of the Friends of Stillwater Bluffs, joined Ken Wu, co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, at a press conference at the Sooke Potholes. The groups were calling on the BC government to form a land acquisition fund dedicated to protecting parkland.
 

News Coverage