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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS










LOGGING PRACTICES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

A major tributary of the Alesek River, known as the Tatsheshini, is located primarily in British Columbia, yet it is an American river, too.  Known as the 'Tat" it consists of 2.8 million acres of unroaded, unlogged and uninhabited wilderness.  In 1980 the lower reaches of the "Tat" were protected by the U.S. Government in the expansion of Glacier Bay National Park.  This pristine wilderness is threatened with a 70 mile access road which cuts right into the center of the wilderness to lead to a proposed mine designed to mine 30,000 tons of ore per day.

Unlike the environmentalists of the U.S., the people of British Columbia are forbidden by law to sue their government or any of its agencies, even though they may act in violation of the law.  They are faced with two options: physical demonstrations on site, where they are often imprisoned and otherwise intimidated, or rallying international protest against such a catastrophe as is faced by the "Tat", and against such logging practices that are producing clear-cut old growth throughout the Province that range from the top of ridges to the rivers, lakes or beaches.  Ridge after ravished ridge can be seen from air and along roads throughout the west coast of Vancouver Island and on the mainland of British Columbia.

The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs, as a gesture of international solidarity with the environmentalists of British Columbia, strongly disapprove of these logging practices, and calls on the Premier of British Columbia and the provincial legislature to enact protective laws to govern the cutting of old growth forests.

c: Premier of British Columbia, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, BC





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