To The Editor: BC is reeling from floods. A moment those who've paid attention to climate science have been dreading for decades. Ironically right after COP26. Despite BC's new forestry commitments, old growth is still being logged. And our tax dollars are still being used to subsidize fossil fuels. It's talk and log and frack...

One Hundred and twenty-five years ago, more people lived between Kaslo and New Denver than in either Los Angeles or Vancouver. Nine villages sprung up on the wagon roads and railroads built between the two cities. Sandon was the largest at over 8,000 residents and today is a shadow of its former self, with five residents....

To The Editor: Kootenay Lake has had two hatcheries during the last century. The more notable one was located in Nelson at the base of Cottonwood Falls operating from the early 1900s until about 1962. It was closed after numerous evaluations determined it did little to improve KL fishing. Its primary purpose evolved into...

Halloween is officially in the rear view mirror although you may still have candy still around the house. But what about the Jack or Jill o-Lanterns you selected from all the other pumpkins at the local store or field? The Nature Conservancy of Canada is urging people NOT to discard pumpkins into forests or natural areas....

Michael Jessen, or “Recycle Michael” as people sometimes called him, recently died a few days after suffering a massive stroke. Jessen was in his mid 70s when he suffered the stroke, which happened while on a walk in the woods with his beloved wife Carol. Some of the public first came to know Michael Jessen while...

Many people know the area between New Denver and Kaslo, in the Central Selkirk Mountains of BC, as the Highway 31A corridor. For many centuries before that, it was a corridor for animals, plants, and the Autonomous Sinixt, the Indigenous People of this region who were and continue to be stewards of the area. They had a different...

To The Editor: As we approach Remembrance Day, I’d like to pay tribute to the veteran members of The War Amps. The War Amps was started by amputee veterans returning from the First World War to help each other adapt to their new reality as amputees. They then welcomed amputee veterans following the Second World War, sharing...

To The Editor: You may have heard about Costa Rica being one of the winners of the annual Earthshot Prize for their work in ecosystem restoration.  You may be aware that CBC has expanded their climate related programming from “In Our Backyard” and “What on Earth” to include “Our Changing Planet” a multi-platform series. At ...

To The Editor: For many years and more so in recent months, the BC Truck Loggers Association has called for a collective vision for forestry in our province. Earlier this month, we renewed the call and asked the BC government to facilitate the way forward, as a matter of urgency. Forestry has been at the forefront of media ...

To The Editor: This past summer, hundreds of wildfires blazed around the world. Driven by extreme heat waves, these fires made one thing abundantly clear: the climate crisis is at our doorsteps and our politicians simply are not acting at the scale and pace we need. For years, Justin Trudeau has tried to style himself as a ...