Elphinstone Logging Focus

11/24/2025

https://youtu.be/MX3TvslZ8ds

ELF takes you deep into the forest at a proposed cutblock that is subject to a "wildfire risk reduction" plan by the Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF). ...

11/22/2025

ELF conducts a post-logging visit to the Elphinstone Water Protection Forest above our community - now a wasteland. The money has been extracted, the environment suffers and begins a long road to back to recovery, but, it will never be the same as this human disturbance forced upon the land by BC Timber Sales (BCTS) and its contractor (OceanView Logging) is significant.

ELF returns to a logged out forest that BC Timber Sales pushed through against regional interests to see it left intact. The narration provides the details o...

11/19/2025

Heli-logging in the Chaster Creek Watershed, within the Town of Gibsons' Aquifer Recharge Zone.

ELF invited themselves along to an industry led demo on heli-logging in the Chaster Creek Watershed above the Town of Gibsons. We spoke in front of a crowd o...

11/15/2025

ELF invites you & friends to attend a walk-about in The Elk Alley Forest targeted for "wildfire reduction treatment" as Blk TU-5. The public has been mainly kept in the dark by the proponent (Sunshine Coast Community Forest - SCCF) by making it hard to access the actual plan and reasons why this forest, in their minds, requires intervention.

For example, the plan calls for 30% reduction of the forest which SCCF has never stated in their full page advertising. And, that the forest is located upwind from community points of interest, and the Sechelt Fire Centre (run by Ministry of Forests) is easily within reach.

ELF will hand out a critique addressing a newly released report that SCCF finally posted at their website. Note that Monday, Nov. 17th is deadline for the public to submit comments.

We hope that by walking the forest, and sharing information the public will obtain a better grasp of the issues, including what are the real threats to fire in this area? Wildfire, or human-caused?

Meet tomorrow Sunday, Nov. 16th at the SCRD parking top of Field Rd. Turn off Hwy 101 at the IGA Plaza and head up Field Rd. The SCRD building is on your left side.

10/27/2025

Let Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) know that you oppose slash pile burning that they are considering during these winter months. This example of burning of left-over logging debris was caught on video by ELF in the Chapman Community Watershed by a private logging company and is typical of the amount of smoke released by one slash pile.

What is hidden from view, bur present, is the Particulate Matter (PM) very fine particles that when humans breathe them is not good for our lungs.

SCCF has a series of slash piles drying out in a cublock above Porpoise Bay that could be ignited soon.

Email them at [email protected] and tell them not to burn.

Best alternative is to chip the material.

This video clip shows a slash pile burning in the Chapman Drinking Watershed, October 4, 2018The total number of slash piles has not been systemically counte...

10/19/2025

https://youtu.be/HyrDKoAlx44?si=kgcX4iFVw68TLm4r

Enjoy this spoof on a serious matter concerning the lack of protection for Red-legged frog habitat near a high quality breeding pond. On April 7th, 2025, reg...

09/21/2025

https://youtu.be/1Wvh3oel3B4?si=YIVZ8nV7l462KLbj

The only legal protection that The Elphinstone Forest has is a small 140 ha provincial park that is divided into 3 biological islands above the community of ...

08/05/2025

This video is from 2016 showing a standoff between a forest activist and a feller bunch operator. Location: within the Mt. Elphinstone Park expansion area, Sunshine Coast, B.C.

Ongoing protests like this have not moved the NDP government's needle towards helping to protect these rare old forests and do the right thing by expanding this poplar area from 160ha (divided in 3 biological islands) into a more robust 1,500-2,000 ha protected Class A, or IPCA (Indigenous Protected Conservation Area.)

Since June 2016, a protest has been underway, opposing logging in the last remaining, low elevation old growth forest on the Sunshine Coast of BC. Witness th...

07/30/2025

ELF flies a drone over an area in the E. Gray and Angus Creek Watersheds showing Before & After scenes of a forest before clearcut logging by Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) and then after. If you don't like what you see, feel free to contact SCCF at [email protected] and request that they end this practice.

ELF flies a drone above a Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) clearcut on the Gray-Angus Creek Watersheds.

07/22/2025

How about a complete ban on logging on the lower Sunshine Coast?

Its been going on now for 75 years and all the good timber (good forests) is almost gone.

That would protect what is left of the habitat for iconic species such as these cougars (aka: mountain lions).

07/10/2025

https://youtu.be/uE75MhOyMsc?si=uLA8GhdMPuC8m8CD

The Sunshine Coast Community Forest (SCCF) logging company has completed a brand new and unnecessary logging road in the upper Wakefield Creek Watershed, Sun...

06/02/2025

Looking for a great hike through an emerging old-growth forest on the Sunshine Coast? Plan to visit the Health Trail. Download a trail map here:https://loggingfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ELF_HealthTrailMap-final-2022.pdf

There's a lovely new entrance at the start of the Health Trail thanks to Tyler Gentry a designer of natural gardens. If you want to get into great shape or stay in great shape hike the entire length of the trail which can take up to 4.5 hours for a moderate hiker.

Thank you for supporting ELF as we enter the summer season of maintaining and building new trails to access the Elphinstone backcountry.