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Tape sets off alarms
By Fred Davies - Parksville Qualicum Beach News
Published: September 22, 2008 4:00 PM

Approximately 40 people attended a meeting held in response to cut-block logger’s tape discovered around Labour Day Lake, headwaters of a drinking water source for Qualicum Beach and Dashwood.

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Tree removal on hold
Julia Caranci, Alberni Valley Times
Published: Friday, June 20, 2008

B.C. Parks is responding to reports that as many as 21 trees from Cathedral Grove Provincial Park will be removed this fall. Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) members fear the tree removal could take place without public consultation. However, the province now says the plans cited by WCWC are on hold.
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Environmental group says trees should not be removed while birds are nesting
Julia Caranci , Alberni Valley Times
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
 
Protestors gathered on familiar ground -- Cathedral Grove Park --
earlier this week, as opposition mounted after plans to limb and remove
some trees in the park were made public by Parks B.C.
As reported in the Times on Monday, nine trees in Cathedral Grove Park
identified as potentially hazardous will either be felled, pruned or
potentially topped using small explosives.

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On the Brink
By Neil Horner - Parksville Qualicum Beach News - January 22, 2008
Hidden gems like the Cameron Canyon off of Highway 4 at risk from logging, say environmental activists.There are no folksy, hand carved signs directing hikers into the Cameron River Canyon. There’s no real trailhead and not much of a trail either. You can access the very bottom of the canyon, but you’ll want someone who knows the way.
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Cameron Valley needs protection
December 14, 2007 PQB News
Along the Cameron River Valley is a resource that will attract tourists forever. Let it be logged now and who will come to visit? What tourist wants to see clear cut barren swaths of a once lovely land?   Think about a one time profit now, compared to a lifetime of endless tourist traffic to the area.
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Forestry towns on the hook
By Neil Horner - Parksville Qualicum Beach News - January 22, 2008
NDP MLA Fraser says selloff of forest lands in B.C. could hurt resource towns. The selloff of private forest lands in B.C. could lead to local communities holding the bag, said Alberni-Qualicum MLA Scott Fraser.
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• Wilderness Committee Calls on Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities and Union of BC Municipalities to Stop Vancouver Island Forest Land Liquidation.
Qualicum Beach Council passed the following motion:  “THAT Council supports the following resolution and instructs staff to send it to the Province with a copy to the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities for the Union of BC Municipalities.”
AVICC Resolution
 

Brookfield to spin off timber asset
Profitable Island Timberlands to become part of Bermuda-based partnership
Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, January 04, 2008

Brookfield Asset Management, which owns 50 per cent of one of Vancouver Island's largest forest companies, Island Timberlands, is spinning off its timber and power assets into a Bermuda-based partnership to create an offshore investment vehicle.

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