VANCOUVER ISLAND -
PRIVATE TIMBER LAND LOGGING
IN DRINKING WATERSHEDS


April 3, 2008
(pdf - 141 kb)

April 4, 2008
(pdf - 1,157 kb)
Comox Valley
Newspaper article

Response Submission to the Private Managed Forest Lands Council Decisions regarding a May 21, 2007 complaint by BC Tap Water Alliance against TimberWest for violating the provincial private forest lands Regulation, clearcutting a riparian corridor on Beech Creek, a tributary of the Comox Lake drinking watershed, Comox, Vancouver Island.

March 24, 2007
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Presentation to Save Our Valley Alliance (SOVA). Concerns about TimberWest logging of drinking water sources in the Port Alberni Valley. This is a summary of the 260 power point slides presented at the meeting on the history of drinking watershed protection in British Columbia and the United States.
March 25, 2007
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Photo compilation. These photos are from TimberWest clearcut logging block T141, above Wayne Crowley's property in the Beaver Creek Improvement District boundary, Port Alberni Valley. Photos were taken on March 25, 2007.

April 24, 2007
BC Tap Water Alliance request for information to the Private Managed Forests Land Council (via Executive Director Stuart Macpherson) concerning TimberWest cutblock T141 near Port Alberni, to obtain photographs taken by government consultants and Council members on January 15, 2007.

May 14, 2007
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Presentation in Courtney, Best Western Hotel, to the Comox Valley Water Watch Coalition. This is a short summary from the 268 power point slides, showing, primarily, photos of the logging activities by TimberWest in the Comox Lake drinking watershed. A longer version of this summary on the history of drinking watershed protection in British Columbia and the United States is provided in the March 24, 2007 document above.

May 21, 2007
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Letter of complaint to the Private Managed Forests Land Council concerning a violation of the Private Forest Land Act by TimberWest in the Comox Lake drinking watershed, Beech Creek. Copies of the letter forwarded to the Comox Strathcona Regional District, the Comox Valley Water Watch Coalition, the Save Our Valley Alliance, the NDP opposition critics of Forests and Environment, and the David Suzuki Foundation.


April 3, 2008
(pdf - 141 kb)

Comments and Critique of PMFLC’s March 13, 2008 Decision re TimberWest Logging Violation in Beech Creek, Comox Lake, Vancouver Island (File IN0703). Response Submission to the Private Managed Forest Lands Council Decisions regarding a complaint by the BC Tap Water Alliance against TimberWest for violating the provincial private forest lands Regulation, clearcutting a riparian corridor on Beech Creek, a tributary of the Comox Lake drinking watershed, Comox, Vancouver Island.
April 4, 2008
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Timber Company's Fine Axed. Comox Valley Echo newspaper article by Marcel Tetrault.