Protect Glade Watershed
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    • BC WATERSHEDS
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    • Forest Practices Board Complaint
    • Eco-System Based Community Forest >
      • Restoration & Wildcrafting in the Forest
  • Forests & Wildlife
    • Importance of Forests
    • Almost no Protection for Water, Old Growth, Wildlife....
    • Grizzly habitat threatened
    • CARIBOU Beyond 'Threatened'
    • OLD GROWTH being Logged
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How you can help protect Glade
water sources


Stewardship is sacrificing in the present to protect the future.

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Herb Hammond, Forest Ecologist


PETITION
Sign this petition to the Honourable Mr. Heyman,  Minster of the Environment and Climate Change:
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The Glade Community Watershed in West Kootenay is slated for logging now, with licenses being held by two companies.  There is no time to wait as trees are being cut in many Community Watersheds and more are slated for logging. Contracts are in place and roads are being built. Community Watershed groups have no legal voice, no legislated processes that have meaningful impact. There is no reasonable means to hold forest professionals and government agencies accountable for their damage to watershed.
BC Community Watersheds Need Protection!
The history of legislation of BC water tells a story of industry gaining control of water and trees as commodities, leaving water users responsible for damage inflicted through industrial activity in Community Watersheds.
This has to stop now and it is you and I who will do it.
Our message is simple and clear: An Immediate Moratorium on Industrial Logging in BC Community Watersheds. Citizens of BC have the right to clean, safe water. And in order to have that, we need to protect the forests that help to produce and protect the water.


HOPE locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.
 

When you recognise uncertainty, you recognise that you may be able to influence the outcomes – you alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others.
Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will all be fine without our involvement; pessimists adopt the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting.
It is the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand. We may not, in fact, know them afterwards either, but they matter all the same, and history is full of people whose influence was most powerful after they were gone.” Rebecca Solnit

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Seen on Hwy 6 near New Denver, BC (HMcS)

How you can help...

  • Talk to other people about the issue
  • You can join the Glade Watershed Protection Society & attend our meetings
  • You can write, phone or email Kalesnikoff and ATCO with your concerns!
  • You can write, phone or email local government (addresses below)
  • Contact Interior Health and our Environmental Health Officer
  • You can think of a fundraising idea for the Glade Watershed Protection Society, you can organize a fund raiser!
  • You could write to the Auditor General of BC
  • You can write a 'Letter to the Editor' for our local paper
  • You can write to the government: Ministries of Health, the Environment, Lands and Forests etc.
  • You can help organize community meetings
  • You can network with groups in the area and see if you can enlist help, or learn from them
  • Like our Face Book page for Glade Watershed Protection!
  • You can make a YouTube video!
  • Are you familiar with hashtags or Instagram? Can you think of a way it might be useful to us?
  • You can do some research that might help our cause
  • You could investigate petitions, either local and/or global
  • You can get your name added to our newsletter/ email list
  • You can donate money to our cause: no amount is too small :)
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Glade Creek 06.2016 ©C.Hecker

Addresses

InterimLATCO WOOD Products
Rebecca and Scott Weatherford, President & CEO,
ATCO Wood Products
Box 460, Fruitvale BC   V0G 1L0
 
ATCO Wood Products
Craig Stemmler, Woodlands Manager
Box 460, Fruitvale BC   V0G 1L0
[email protected]

KALESNIKOFF Lumber Company
Kalesnikoff Lumber Company, Woodlands Manager,
Gerald Cordeiro
2090 BC Hwy 3A, Thrums BC
V1N 3L8
[email protected]
 
Kalesnikoff Lumber Co. Ltd.
Ken Kalesnikoff
PO Box 3000 Hwy 3A
Thrums BC, Canada  V1N 3L8
[email protected]
 
GOVERNMENT

Honourable John Horgan, Premier
Office of the Premier
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC V8W 9E1
[email protected]
 
Interim Leader Andrew Olsen
Green Party of BC
Parliament Buildings
Victoria BC  V8V 1X4
250 387 8347
[email protected]

 
Honourable George Heyman, Minister of Environment & Climate Change Strategy,
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
[email protected]
 
Honourable Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Operations
Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
250 387 6240
[email protected]
 
MLA Katrine Conroy, Kootenay West
2, 1006 3rd Street
Castlegar, BC  V1N 3X6
[email protected]

MP Richard Cannings, South Okanagan-West.Kootenay
301 Main Street, #202
Penticton, BC  V2A 5B7
[email protected]
 
MP Wayne Stetski, Kootenay Columbia
Ste. 501-310 Ward Street
Nelson, BC  V1L 5S4

Fish & Wildlife Branch
Dan Peterson, Director
Po Box 9391, Stn Prov Gov't
Victoria BC, V8W 9M8
[email protected]
 
Dr. Trevor Corneil (Chief, Interior Health Authority)
505 Doyle Avenue
Kelowna BC V1Y 0C5
[email protected]
250-469-7070 Ext: 12791

 

Regional District Central Kootenay
Aimee Watson, Chair
Regional District Central Kootenay
Box 590
202 Lakeside Drive
Nelson, BC  V1L 5R4
[email protected]
 
Ramona Faust, Director, Electoral Area E
Regional District Central Kootenay
Box 1, Procter, BC  V0G 1V0
[email protected]
 
Andy Davidoff, Director, Electoral Area I
Regional District Central Kootenay
1657 Hwy 3A
Castlegar, BC  V1N 4N5
[email protected]

Interior Health Authority
Renee Ansel, Small Water EHO
Interior Health Authority
2nd Floor, 333 Victoria Street
Nelson, BC  V1L 4K3
[email protected]
 
Rob Birtles, Small Water Team Lead
Interior Health Authority
3090 Skaha Lake Road
Penticton, BC  V2A 7H2
 
Forest Practices Board
Dave Clarke, Executive Director
Forest Practices Board
1675 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC  V8W 2G5
[email protected]

Doug Wahl, Manager, Audits & Investigations
Forest Practices Board
1675 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC  V8W 2G5
[email protected]
250-213-4723
 
Regional Forestry
Garth Wiggill, Director, Strategic Initiatives, Nelson,
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
1907 Ridgewood Road
Nelson, BC 
[email protected]

Tara Decourcy, District Manager Kootenay Boundary
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
1907 Ridgewood Road
Nelson, BC  V1L 6K1
[email protected]
 
Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource
Regional Operations Kootenay Boundary
Paul Rasmussen, Exec. Director
1902 Theatre Rd., Cranbrook BC, V1C 7G1
Tel: (250) 426-1700
 
Other
West Kootenay Eco Society
507 Baker Street, #206
Nelson, BC  V1L 4J2
 
Auditor General of BC
Carol Bellringer,
PO Box 9036 Prov Gov’t
Victoria BC, V8W 9A2
[email protected]
 
Office of the Ombudsperson
Mr. Jay Chalke
2nd floor, 947 Fort St.,
Victoria, BC V8V 9A5
250 356 1559
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The value that the forest adds to the health and welfare of all life is paramount and how we care for the elements of nature that provide us with these benefits should be foremost in our actions. This value is as important as or, or even more important than, economic gain, for without the forest ecosystems we cannot flourish. Water is the priority – our forests that produce that water is our priority. Water is life and without clean water, nothing can live.       
                                                                      Glade Watershed Protection Society,
Glade, Castlegar, West Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada
  • History
  • Watersheds
    • BC WATERSHEDS
    • Glade Community Water & Threat
    • Glade Creek Watershed
    • Watershed Reserves
  • Society Activities
    • Overview: Our Timeline
    • Section 29 & Interior Health Authority
    • Legal Attempts
    • Forest Practices Board Complaint
    • Eco-System Based Community Forest >
      • Restoration & Wildcrafting in the Forest
  • Forests & Wildlife
    • Importance of Forests
    • Almost no Protection for Water, Old Growth, Wildlife....
    • Grizzly habitat threatened
    • CARIBOU Beyond 'Threatened'
    • OLD GROWTH being Logged
  • Take ACTION!
    • How You can Help
    • Contact Us
    • PLEASE Donate!
  • Impacts & climate change
    • Community Questionnaire
    • Impacts from Logging & Road Building
    • Wildfire, Carbon & Beetles
    • Climate Change: the Kootenays and Glade
  • Timber Industry
    • Professional Reliance
    • Forestry Stats (CoFI)
    • Exporting Logs & Labour
  • Local Timber Industry
    • Interior Lumber Manufacturer's Association
    • Sustainable, Renewable resource?
    • Failing Forest Stewardship plans & Forest Practices Board
  • Proposed Logging in Glade
    • Who is Responsible?
    • Proposed Logging (Kalesnikoff - KLC)
    • KLC Updates
    • Proposed LOGGING (ATCO)
  • Links, News, Newsletter
    • Latest Press Release
    • Newsletter
    • In the NEWS
    • Publications & Links
  • Upcoming Events
    • Markets, etc...
    • Citizen's Climate Lobby Canada