January 01, 2012

PLEASE HELP SAVE CORTES ISLAND'S FORESTS!!!!

Dear Friends

Cortes Island is about 16 miles (25 km) long, 8 miles (13 km) wide and 13,000 hectares in area.  This small island cannot withstand the destruction of clear cut logging.  They want to begin tearing down the trees as early as this month. There are more sustainable and ecological practices available to us without raping the land and her resources. Practices that promote grown and provide loggers with jobs. This island is very special to me and is very powerful and magical.  I want to do everything in my power to make sure that it thrives.    PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION and pass this email along!!!  This is worth breaking my silent retreat for.  Please sign!!

Article about our situation.
you can read more here


Sincerely,

Jen

See below... 

From: Cortes Forests <protectcortesforests@gmail.com>
Subject: If you love Cortes Island forests, please speak up for them now
Date: 23 December, 2011 2:05:25 PM PST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;


Cortes forest lovers,

We need you to take quick action.

Industrial logging of the swath of forest that runs through the heart of Cortes Island now appears imminent. According to Wayne French of Island Timberlands, logging will begin in January. IT lands include Carrington, many of the island’s remaining old growth pockets and the island’s central watershed near Blue Jay Lake.
If you love Cortes Island and want to protect these globally rare and threatened forests, please be sure to take three actions before the end of December:
1)    sign a petition against IT’s logging. When you click “sign,” you have two choices, to sign in using facebook or to just type in your name and email address. An email we will automatically be sent to the CEO of Island Timberlands.  Petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/petitions/PCIFores/signatures

2)   send emails to IT’s parent company, Brookfield Asset Management – you can paste the message below or craft your own. Send an additional email to IT.

3)   forward this email to everyone you know who loves Cortes Island and its forests: twitter it, face book it and, most of all, talk about it. Cortes spurs great conversations!
The goal is at least 3000 emails and signatures – that will take all of us!

We want to inform corporate decision makers that these forests are vital to a huge community of people who go to Cortes Island for connection to nature, their higher selves and community. The forests are even more vital to the wolves, the red legged frogs, and to many of BC’s threatened species. Such sanctuaries are crucial, rare and disappearing.

Let’s use our broad and deep love for Cortes Island to influence the corporate owners and to support local efforts to prevent industrial logging.

Yours for a better way, 
Carrie and Barry Saxifrage, Chris Hatch and Tzeporah Berman, Dana and Joel Solomon

PS To have your name forwarded to local organizations that could use your help, please reply to this email address.
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