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Old-growth logging near the Avatar Grove on Vancouver Island.

Ben Parfitt: Sneaky Liberals are planning a B.C. forest giveaway

Given the short duration of the upcoming legislative session and the provincial election to follow, a government plan to introduce a scant two-paragraph bill granting it powers to fundamentally alter the course of forestry in B.C. is disturbing, to say the least.

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Vancouver photographer Karen Cooper supporting the AFA through the sale of her plaque-mounted photographs of Echo Lake

15% of the proceeds from each Echo Lake plaque goes to support the AFA's work! Plaques of Echo Lake are available in 5x7", 8x12", and 12x18" sizes.

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Front and back of the AFA 2013 calendar.

Roadside logging project put on hold

Logging company Island Timberlands is putting its plans to harvest a roadside section of forest near the Alberni Highway summit on hold. They are pressing the pause button on the logging project after being hit with a wave of outrage from citizens in the Valley. Many say a roadside cut will destroy the beauty of the region and could affect tourism.

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A map detailing the area of planned logging.

Alberni’s "Hump" gets reprieve as Island Timberlands delays logging plans

“We considered our plans over the weekend and now we are putting a temporary suspension on the harvest of the buffer along the highway,” Island Timberlands spokeswoman Morgan Kennah said in an interview Monday.

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A map detailing the area of planned logging.

Island Timberlands’ logging of Alberni summit could denude the Hump

On Monday, Island Timberlands starts logging about 40 hectares of privately managed forest land beside a hilly section of Highway 4 known as the Hump. It tops out at the 400-metre-high Alberni summit, about nine kilometres east of Port Alberni.

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Cortes Island logging dispute moves to the market

As the dispute between Cortes Island residents and Island Timberlands escalates, activists are moving the debate to where it will hurt: the market.

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Adrian Dix’s Not-So-Secret Agenda

A New Democratic Party government led by Adrian Dix would expand child care, reduce fees for seniors' long-term care, ban the cosmetic use of pesticides, put a moratorium on independent power projects, stop renovictions and create disincentives for exporting raw logs.

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Red-legged frog.

Give trees (and frogs) a break

Cortes is very lucky to have forests like this because they are rare and quickly disappearing. Red legged frogs are rare too. They are provincially listed and declining in numbers. On Cortes Island, those rare forests are about to be logged, and the little frogs may be facing their last winter.

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Front and back of the AFA 2013 calendar.

DECEMBER 19 & 20, 2012 — NEW 2013 AFA Calendars & other Holiday Gifts for Sale IN VANCOUVER!

In VANCOUVER, this WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY (Dec.19 and 20), come buy the AFA's mechandise or make a donation by meeting the AFA's Hannah Carpendale, who will be located at the vegan cafe and organic grocer Eternal Abundance (1025 Commercial Drive, between Napier and Parker) from 12pm-6:30pm for those two days. THANKS to Eternal Abundance for supporting the AFA with their facilities!

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Front and back of the AFA 2013 calendar.

The Walbran Valley’s Castle Grove& – Canada’s Finest Old-Growth Cedar Forest

In the summer of 2012 survey tape for logging was discovered in the Upper Castle Grove. However, after a large-scale public awareness and mobilization campaign led by the Ancient Forest Alliance, the BC government announced in November that the company, Teal-Jones, had rescinded its plans to log the grove. Now, follow-up legal protection is needed for this incredible forest.

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