The Wilderness Committee is seeking immediate protection for 700 hectares of forest land in the West Kootenay following a new video showing countless western toads — a species of concern — crawling around logging equipment in the Summit Lake area near Nakusp.
“The toads are everywhere,” campaigner Gwen Barlee said in an interview Wednesday. “They’re in the cutblocks, on the road … under the tires of logging equipment. There’s no way in a million years that you can log in this habitat without killing toads left, right and centre.”
LARRY PYNN – Vancouver Sun – June 01, 2016.
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