Stop Spraying BC Forests
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When a boreal forest regrows after logging, it is a paradise for wildlife like bees, moose, birds, and beavers, with a large selection of food including fireweed, poplar (aspen), birch, willow, grass, and many other plants that are critical to wildlife.
However, to industrial forestry in much of BC, only one type of tree has value- conifer trees like Lodgepole Pine.
Utilizing helicopters equipped with spray nozzles and tanks of herbicides, companies spray these cutblocks 5-10 years after logging with industrial-strength glyphosate to kill every plant that isn't a conifer. The effects are devastating and long-lasting, as a forest without aspen will support far fewer wildlife, and especially moose, than one with.
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We're a couple of guys who grew up in these woods or have worked in them much of their lives as loggers, treeplanters, and silviculture workers and woodworkers. We oppose the widespread destruction of broadleaf communities and believe the job can be better done with manual brushsaws, where you can selectively leave broadleaves in important wildlife areas like around temporary marshes or wetlands. We believe broadleaves have an important role to play in our economy, not only to support the animals hunters, trappers, and guide outfitters rely on, but for a growing industry that now utilizes these so called "weed" species, not to mention the more resilient, forest-fire proof forests they can help create.
We started www.stopthespraybc.com in 2011 and have been working on raising awareness of the futility and damage of this practice ever since. We have shot hours of video and chased helicopters around the woods and have paid out of our own pocket for cumulative herbicide spraying maps government and industry have withheld. We now have a presentation that we delivered to a packed audience at UNBC March 28th and have requests to deliver the presentation elsewhere throughout Central BC. Our next presentation is at the BC Trappers AGM, April 21, in Kamloops. With your donations we will continue to pursue this important work, arrange presentations across the north, get stories into newspapers, and continue raising awareness on social media. We appreciate your support and hope to turn this into a Canada-wide movement to end this practice everywhere, including places like New Brunswick, Ontario, and Alberta (Quebec banned forestry herbicide spraying in 2001; their forest industry is doing great)
However, to industrial forestry in much of BC, only one type of tree has value- conifer trees like Lodgepole Pine.
Utilizing helicopters equipped with spray nozzles and tanks of herbicides, companies spray these cutblocks 5-10 years after logging with industrial-strength glyphosate to kill every plant that isn't a conifer. The effects are devastating and long-lasting, as a forest without aspen will support far fewer wildlife, and especially moose, than one with.
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We're a couple of guys who grew up in these woods or have worked in them much of their lives as loggers, treeplanters, and silviculture workers and woodworkers. We oppose the widespread destruction of broadleaf communities and believe the job can be better done with manual brushsaws, where you can selectively leave broadleaves in important wildlife areas like around temporary marshes or wetlands. We believe broadleaves have an important role to play in our economy, not only to support the animals hunters, trappers, and guide outfitters rely on, but for a growing industry that now utilizes these so called "weed" species, not to mention the more resilient, forest-fire proof forests they can help create.
We started www.stopthespraybc.com in 2011 and have been working on raising awareness of the futility and damage of this practice ever since. We have shot hours of video and chased helicopters around the woods and have paid out of our own pocket for cumulative herbicide spraying maps government and industry have withheld. We now have a presentation that we delivered to a packed audience at UNBC March 28th and have requests to deliver the presentation elsewhere throughout Central BC. Our next presentation is at the BC Trappers AGM, April 21, in Kamloops. With your donations we will continue to pursue this important work, arrange presentations across the north, get stories into newspapers, and continue raising awareness on social media. We appreciate your support and hope to turn this into a Canada-wide movement to end this practice everywhere, including places like New Brunswick, Ontario, and Alberta (Quebec banned forestry herbicide spraying in 2001; their forest industry is doing great)
Organizer
James Steidle
Organizer
Prince George, BC