The B.C. forests ministry has approved new clearcut logging in habitat for highly endangered northern spotted owls, including in the Fraser Canyon, where biologists sighted the last three spotted owls known to exist in Canada’s wild. The ministry issued more than 300 logging approvals — totalling almost 2,000 hectares — in the spotted owl’s range from October 2018 to May 2020, according to recent maps produced by the Wilderness Committee.The maps show new logging approvals along the southern boundary of Nahatlatch Provincial Park, threatening to fragment one of the largest intact unprotected areas of spotted owl habitat in the province.
Source: B.C. approves 312 new logging clearcuts in habitat of endangered spotted owls | The Narwhal
