A wilderness preservation group wants the BC Government to stop efforts to log a wildlife habitat reserved for spotted owls.
The Province has set aside several areas near Chilliwack Lake to protect the endangered birds.
Gwen Barlee, Policy Director with the Wilderness Committee, says she was horrified to learn last weekend, residents heard chainsaws cutting down trees in that very area, “It’s so dishonest of the government to say it’s a protected area and then to turn around and allow a logging road and then eventually logging.”
A government spokesman says staff expanded the owl’s habitats a few years ago, and the new boundaries overlapped on land already allotted to loggers. He says no spotted owls have been seen within three kilometres of the area within the past 20 years.
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