Notice!!! – This web site isn't updated very often. But the forest is still there. And the municipality is still threatening, wanting to push through a new road to the Island Highway, opening up 'north' Chemainus. Planners, engineers and developers are drooling. Council is scratching its head, letting its planning department – rather than its citizens – set the agenda. But the forest is still there, doing just fine at the moment.

Read the latest newsletter  about Honour Our River day at Halalt First Nation on the Chemainus River. Download here. Cut down a pharmacy? Penelakut elder Augie Sylvester writes a powerful letter about Echo Heights in the latest edition of Biodiversity Matters. Click here to download. A Real Treasure – Read Dr Nancy Turner's impressions of Echo Heights Forest. Click here to download pdf file.

Echo Heights maps click on images

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 Walk through EH and you will understand more here

EH species ID –  A survey North Cow didn't think was needed! Read about the incredible diversity that needs to be saved. Download 1.8 MB pdf here. Read the press release here.

Biologist slams buffers – Dave Polster sent a letter to North Cow about inadequate buffers around sensitive areas (just like at Echo Heights!) more here

WE ALREADY SAID THAT! – Much of the information contained in the Madrone report was detailed by biologists Dave Polster and Sally Leigh-Spencer when the CRA hosted a public meeting at St Joseph's in June. No one from North Cowichan bothered to attend. Read more at: Information Rich and Polster's letter to North Cowichan way back in March '06 at: A biologist's view

 

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The Murals – Are the Chemainus Murals a Hit or a Myth? here