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SAVING THE ANCIENT RAIN FORESTS OF CLAQOQUOT SOUND, BRITISH COLUMBIA |
| The British Columbia
government has made a decision that would allow 74% of the ancient
temperate rain forests of Clayoquot Sound to be clear-cut. This
logging would be primarily by MacMillan-Bledel, a national timber giant
with possibly the worst corporate environmental record in Canada.
Fifty-six percent of the world's temperate rain forests have been
logged, and half of the remaining temperate rain forests are in British
Columbia. |
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| Some of the trees in this
forest are a thousand years old. The reason for clear-cutting the
Clayoquot Sound ancient rain forest is, in large part to supply wood
for U.S. telephone directory companies such as Pacific Bell, GTE and
ITT. The B.C. government reportedly is the largest shareholder in
MacMillan-Bloedel. This is an irony, since the Provincial
Government should be safeguarding its natural resources, not supporting
their destruction. |
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Environmental activists
met with Pacific Bell directory officials in San Francisco earlier this
year to discuss the issue of Clayoquot Sound Rain Forest logging, and
received a negative response from that corporation. |
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F.W.O.C. Members and
Member Clubs are urged to write Pacific Bell (Pacific Bell
Directory@101 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, 1-800-848-8000)
and demand that Pacific Bell stop purchasing directory paper or wood
pulp resulting from logging the ancient temperate rain forests in
British Columbia. |
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| Members and Member Clubs
are also urged to write the Premier of British Columbia, (The Honorable
Michael Harcourt, Legislative Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada V8B 1X4, phone 604-387-1715) requesting that he rescind the
provincial governments decision to authorize the clear-cutting of the
ancient temperate rain forests of Claqoquot Sound. |
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