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Industry impacting the valley

Canada Day Campout

The Wilderness Committee’s Canada Day Campout in Chilliwack River Valley’s Owl Forest! When is the event? Friday July 1st and Saturday July 2nd. We will return home the morning of Sunday July 3rd. The Wilderness Committee’s Joe Foy will be … Continue reading

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Northern spotted owls on brink!

Logging, nesting failures put northern spotted owls on brink . . . By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun June 3, 2011 “Habitat of the northern spotted owl — an endangered species that’s all but wiped out in the wild in southwestern … Continue reading

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Post Creek WHA – Wildlife Habitat Area to be logged

Post Creek Ratepayers files formal complaint with the Forest Practices Board! Tamihi logging confirmed at public meeting Saturday, May 14, 2011, that only 20% of trees in 3 exempted cutblocks inside the Post Creek WHA (Wildlife Habitat Area) will remain … Continue reading

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Four FVRD Directors Shut Down Citizens’ Plea for a Seat at the Aggregate Pilot Project (APP) Table

“FVRD Electoral Area Directors Stobbart, Lamson, Bogstie and Dickie voted NO to Directors Adamson & Bales’ March 8 motion to support citizens’ request to be involved in negotiating a win-win-win agreement to stop ‘conflict gravel’.” FULL PRESS RELEASE: http://crvratepayers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/FCA-PRESS.pdf

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No role in gravel monitoring: mayor

“Which raises the question of how many other gravel pits in B.C. are exceeding permit levels, with the tacit approval of the ministry?” http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/theprogress/news/115643934.html

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