B.C. court allows logging in spotted-owl habitat - Canada

[dArKeR]

An environmental group called Tuesday for provincial endangered species legislation after the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling to allow logging in an old-growth section of forest that is critical to the survival of the province's spotted owl population.

The Western Canada Wilderness Committee appealed a B.C. Supreme Court decision of last August that allowed Cattermole Timber to log in one of four cutblocks near Anderson River, north of Hope.

The decision arose when a Forests Ministry district manager, Cindy Stern, had to decide whether four logging cutblocks that Cattermole wanted to log met the requirements under the Forest Practices Code as it related to the safety of the spotted owl.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030708.wowl0708/BNStory/National/

B.C. stop trying to act like Repukelicans!

[pmbryant]

1. ugh

So why doesn't Canada have an Endangered Species Act or something like it?

Perhaps the better question is, isn't it amazing that the US actually has an Endangered Species Act!

--Peter