Canadian Great Bear Wilderness Threatened

ACTION ALERT

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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"

P.O. Box 7490

Boulder CO, USA 80306-7490

Phone: 303/444-0306

Fax: 303/449-9794

http://www.globalresponse.org

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!

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