The Potlatch Journey

By Misty MacDuffee, Biologist, Wild Salmon Program
Rivers Inlet, April 2008

The pilings and ruins of old canneries dot the shoreline as I make my way to the head of Rivers Inlet. Like glimpses to the past, they stand as testament to the famed abundance of sockeye salmon that I only know through more …

by Chris Darimont
Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, June 28, 2008

Two recent Times Colonist articles have quoted Environment Minister Barry Penner and Victoria Jackson of the Vancouver Island Marmot Foundation, who promoted the oversimplified assertion that wolves and cougars are primary
factors in the decline of Vancouver Island marmots.

In fact, the marmot survived with more …

by Chris Genovali
letters - Victoria Times Colonist and Vancouver Province
Published: Sunday, June 15, 2008

Re: ” Poll: Ban grizzly hunting in B.C.,” June 11. British Columbians have been strongly opposed to the grizzly hunt for several years. In 2001, the International Fund for Animal Welfare commissioned Strategic Communications to conduct a province wide more …

By CHRIS GENOVALI

Monday Magazine
May 28 2008

Having recently attended the 20th annual North American Wolf Conference in Pray, Montana, it has been particularly dismaying to learn that literally days after the gray wolf was de-listed from the Endangered Species Act in the United States, trophy hunters in Wyoming had already shot numerous wolves. more …

Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, May 17, 2008

Re: “Premier counters dirty oil threat,” May 9.

Premier Ed Stelmach is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he’s going to snap his fingers and build a pipeline to the north coast of British Columbia in order to send oilsands products to Asia.

Approval and construction more …