Friends of Falls Creek is a community-led organization committed to protecting the source of our most vital resource:clean water. We are mobilizing the community of Bonnington and Beasley in a multi-faceted approach to protect the watershed from BCTS Industrial logging plans.
Did you know that in Canada we have no right to clean drinking water?
Facts
Mandate to increase production
Intact Watersheds & Climate Change Resilience
This is Ravi Parmar.
B.C.'s Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
BC Timber Sales is an independent organization within the Ministry.
He along with Premier David Eby on Jan 5th announced that BCTS was not meeting its timber volume. Ravi is pushing BCTS to increase and meet its production targets. A volume increase from 10% to 20% in 2025 alone.
Once the blocks are sold to the highest bid, profit lead Industrial logging companies are left to follow through with BCTS proposals.
State of our Watershed
Our watershed supports 150 families. Our water is some of the best water in the world. Something the world would be envious for. BCTS track record of logging in watersheds has left some communities with no access to clean drinking water relying on costly well water, boiled water or costly treatment requirements. Can you imagine loosing our water to an experiment?
Victoria and Vancouver have protected their watersheds, why cant we?
Stable Water Supply & Drought Buffering - Intact forests regulate infiltration, groundwater recharge, and evapotranspiration. This moderates both floods and droughts (Brown et al., 2005).
Flood Mitigation - Clearcutting increased extreme floods up to 18 times more frequent (Pham & Alila, 2025).
Water Quality Protection - Forested watersheds filter sediment, nutrients, and pathogens, keeping streams and drinking water clean (Kreutzweiser et al, 2008).
Moist Microclimates - Dense canopies provide shading, reduce wind speeds, and maintain cooler, moister understories - lowering ignition probability and fire spread (Lindenmayer et al, 2008).
Natural Fire Resistance of Old Growth - Old, intact forests have thicker bark, taller canopies, and more diverse species mixes, all of which make them more resistant to high-severity fires (Odion et al, 2004).