Tell the BC NDP and BC Timber Sales that Peachland Watershed old growth and Glen Lake primary forest is no place for LOGGING.
When British Columbians, even Peachlanders, visualize old growth, places like Walbran, Carmanah, Clayoquot and Fairy Creek come to mind; towering trees, mossy floors, thick canopies, various species throughout a shady understory, on the rugged west coast. Did you know , the Peachland watershed holds some of the very same, rarest, at-risk old growth and primary forests left in the BC interior, and perhaps the last six stands of certified old growth in the entire Okanagan?
WATER, however, is the prime value in our community watershed; the water creation, collection, storage and distribution properties is what makes these intact, primary forests so valuable, and its these forest that makes life in the Okanagan liveable, our plentiful and drinkable water and its synchronized release throughout the seasons for use by all living organisms. And did you know it is our own government that wants to permanently remove them with clearcut logging?
This very same government in 2017 agreed to recognize the value of old growth and primary forests and protect them. In 2021 they paid experts to map, photographed and identify all BC old growth, they are Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) in 2021. The mission of the TAP to maps these priceless forested areas to defer them from the status quo tree harvesting across BC with the eventual intention of permanent protection status once the First Nations agreed.
ACT NOW! Send this letter to your Premiere, MLA, and the Land Ministers here:
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