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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I live in Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia. Qualicum Beach has 26 kilometres of old asbestos cement (AC) water distribution pipes. Like many communities across Canada, ...

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 ...

After decades of protests, environmental violations, government fines, and civil claims, it’s the end of an era. Crofton’s embattled pulp mill is shutting down after 68 years, leaving 350 workers ...