Last Chance to Save Windy Bay

Publisher:  Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Year Published:  1988
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX3297

Abstract: 
Last Chance to Save Windy Bay is an information sheet/fund raiser release published to raise social awareness of the situation at Windy Bay, a virgin rainforest on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Since 1974, environmental groups have been fighting to preserve Windy Bay, an area containing one of the largest amounts of living matter by weight per unit area of any terrestrial ecosystem in the world.
As early as 1988, the logging company in question wants to put a road through the area designated by the government as an Ecological Reserve Unit. In 1986, the B.C. provincial government approved a five-year cutting plan for the island including Windy Bay. The Haida Indians have withstood some 70 arrests in protest of the logging.
Copies of the sheet, which contains the government addressess to write to with expressions of concern, can be obtained from the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.