W̱SÁNEĆ Land Trust Society's Dec 2023 “Give the gift of landback this holiday season” campaign raised funds toward the return ...

Clearcut logging and climate-driven storms are intensifying floods in BC, raising urgent questions about forest management ...

New GM tomato seeds in Canada raise concerns about labelling, contamination, and threats to seed saving and food sovereignty.

Twenty years ago, Washington State decided to end old-growth logging, protect forests, and transition to a more sustainable ...

I’ve learned a lot about the value of wetlands. What lies beneath Armstrong’s pavement was once a land filled with ...

In winter 2025, a barge carrying a crane moved slowly into the Courtenay River estuary to remove the last remains of the old sawmill. For weeks, 20-metre-long rusty steel pilings were wrenched from ...

BC's timber barons could have found ways to make the industry sustainable, but instead they logged centuries of forests in a few decades. From endless "talk-and-log," to the public cost of watershed ...

Back in May 2023, my small Métis community of around 300 people, East Prairie Métis Settlement, was devastated by a wildfire. Located in Treaty 8 territory, our community – also known as Pahkan-Wacis ...

One summer, I became a forester, believing I could protect the forest I loved. I left understanding how naive that belief was.

Old-growth forests in British Columbia hold a prized position in our collective imagination. Our relationships with these places define our regional identity. We often picture them as valleys of ...

In January 2026, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the federal government’s decision to phase out open-net salmon farms in the Discovery Islands. The court dismissed an appeal by Mowi, the world’s ...

Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...