ACTION ALERT
Canadian Great Bear Wilderness Threatened
8/9/99
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by EE
Pooley Island on British Columbia's central coast contains key salmon
runs and serves as habitat for the Spirit bear, the rare white phase
of the coastal black bear. It is utilized by grizzly bears and may
have the highest density of wolves in Canada. This watershed is to
fragmented through 23 separate clearcuts. Please respond to appeals
of letters against this dastardly abuse of forest ecosystems.
g.b.
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Title: Salmon-Bear Stronghold Pooley Island Threatened by WFP
Source: Global Response "Quick Response Network"
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Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: August 9, 1999
Dear Members of Global Response's "Quick Response Network:"
Last fall Global Response members wrote letters to Home Depot, urging
the company to stop purchasing old-growth forest products (GR Action
#4/98. For full text, see our website http://www.globalresponse.org).
Our Action Alert featured British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest,
and our youth members made banners for the Great Bear Rainforest
campaign.
Now there is an urgent need to stop Western Forest Products Company
(WFP) from clearcutting on Pooley Island, part of the Great Bear
Rainforest. This urgent Follow-up Action is requested by the
Raincoast Conservation Society in Victoria, British Columbia. For
more information, please contact:
Chris Genovali
chrisg@raincoast.org
Tel: (250) 655-1229
Fax: (250) 655-1339
And be sure to visit the Raincoast Conservation Society website at
http://www.raincoast.org
Salmon-Bear Stronghold Pooley Island Threatened by WFP
Pooley Island on BC's central coast is a key salmon-bear stronghold in
the Great Bear Rainforest. Pooley Island has runs of pink, chum, and
coho, and serves as habitat for the Spirit bear, the rare white phase
of the coastal black bear, and is utilized by grizzly bears as well.
We believe that the Pooley Island might have the highest concentrated
density of wolves in Canada.
Pooley Island is a spectacularly beautiful area with winding streams
and rivers, big old growth spruce, delicate bog forests and wetlands.
Western Forest Products (WFP) is planning to clearcut 23 separate cut
blocks in one Pooley Island watershed alone. WFP already has flagging
tape up where they plan to blast and bulldoze a logging road alongside
a coho salmon river. We found several bear day beds located within the
logging road right-of-way.
Your letter is urgently needed now!
PLEASE WRITE OR FAX TODAY!
1) BC Premier Glen Clark
Ask Premier Clark to protect Pooley Island. Remind him that it is an
important salmon producing system and is habitat for Spirit bears and
grizzly bears.
Ask Premier Clark to protect all the other intact salmon producing
river valleys in the Great Bear Rainforest.
Write to:
Premier Glen Clark
Legislative Buildings, Victoria, BC V8V 1X4 Canada Fax: 250-387-0087
or e-mail: glen.clark.office@leg.bc.ca
2) Federal Fisheries Minister David Anderson
Ask Minister Anderson to intervene and stop the provincial government
from allowing Pooley Island and all the other intact salmon producing
river valleys in the Great Bear Rainforest, to be roaded and logged.
Write to:
The Honourable David Anderson
Minister of Fisheries,
House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0A6 or e-mail:
Andersond@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Please copy your letters to:
Raincoast Conservation Society
P.O. Box 8663
Victoria, BC V8W 3S2 Canada
Letters to the media on this issue will also have an impact.
Write to the Victoria Times Colonist:
The Editor
Times Colonist
P.O. Box 300, Victoria, BC V8W 2N4 Canada
THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST NEEDS YOUR HELP!