'CONSERVATION NEED' OF PINTO ABALONE TOPIC OF PUBLIC MEETING IN ANACORTES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 22, 2008 ;     394 words ......following news release: The status of pinto abalone will be the subject of a public meeting...will discuss a proposal to list the pinto abalone as a state "species of greatest conservation...Library. No fishing has been allowed for pinto abalone in Washington state since 1994 due...

Masked Dancers, BC coast

Canadisk/CanPix;  June 15, 1989 ;     19 words ...Canadisk/CanPix 06-15-1989 Masked Dancers, BC coast NAC/ANC C-20857 Keyword: 1989 Ottawa Researchers/Dr. Alastair Sweeney

Greenpeace Canada: Oil Tankers Are Coming to the BC Coast

CCNMatthews Newswire;  November 25, 2005 ;     431 words ......Alberta's tar sands to Kitimat on the BC coast where it would be loaded onto tankers...to British Columbians and protect the BC coast from the oil and gas industry. By delaying...like the Gateway Pipeline pose to the BC coast. While on site the public was able to...

Greenpeace Canada: Oil Tankers Are Coming to the BC Coast.

Canadian Corporate News;  November 25, 2005 ;     463 words ......Alberta's tar sands to Kitimat on the BC coast where it would be loaded onto tankers...to British Columbians and protect the BC coast from the oil and gas industry. By delaying...like the Gateway Pipeline pose to the BC coast. While on site the public was able to...

BC Coast wood union delays strike

Pulp & Paper;  August 1, 2007 ;   Anonymous;   159 words ......its final offer included a 2% wage increase this year and a 3% increase in 2008, wim a third year to be matched with the Interior industry. A strike would have a dramatic impact on woodchip supply to BC Coast pulp and paper mills, contacts said.

Coasting to a Stop?

Canadian Forest Industries;  March 1, 2007 ;   Sorensen, Jean;   787 words ......Western Forest Products has become the dominant force on the BC coast, controlling the lion's share of timber today with an AAC of...customers offer us additional cash because we operate on the BC coast with what we see as unique coastal issues. They have their...

Stewart

Canadian Encyclopedia;    JOHN R. STEWART;   164 words ......2001c), 858 (1996c), 1151 (1991c), area 566.84 km, located next to the Alaska Panhandle at the end of the Portland Canal on the BC coast. Lying at the foot of the Coast Mts, Stewart has been the access to a region rich in mineral resources. The town is named after...

Otter

Canadian Encyclopedia;    IAN MCTAGGART-COWAN;   212 words ......canadensis ) occurs throughout N America except in DESERT and arid TUNDRA regions. In Canada it is scarce, except along the BC coast, where it is abundant and often wrongly identified as a SEA OTTER . The otter is a large WEASEL , males reaching 1.3 m in length...

Walbran, John Thomas

Canadian Encyclopedia;    ERIC J. HOLMGREN;   110 words ......Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. Three years later he became captain of the Canadian government steamship Quadra and travelled the BC coast, 1891-1903, engaged in fisheries protection and lighthouse supply. Walbran's British Columbia Coast Names (1909, repr 1971...

MacMillan, Harvey Reginald

Canadian Encyclopedia;    CHRISTOPHER G. CURTIS;   262 words ......Vancouver 9 Feb 1976). After studying at the Ontario Agricultural College and the Yale Forestry School, MacMillan worked on the BC coast as a timber cruiser in 1907. Although he was hired as assistant inspector of forest reserves for western Canada in 1908, tuberculosis...

One-third of British Colombia's Great Bear Rainforest.(Brief article)

Science Activities;  September 22, 2006 ;     162 words ......provides a real-world example of how people and wilderness can prosper together, says Merran Smith, director of ForestEthics' BC Coast Program. And this is just the beginning. ForestEthics, Greenpeace, and the Sierra Club of Canada collaborated on the effort...

Pen farming fish has two sides

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times);  April 5, 2000 ;   McColl, Malcolm;   639 words ......initiatives in growing black cod and halibut. "We will see the BC coast in a very competitive global market. We are a bit player. Norwegians...huge and they control the industry." As for the future in the BC coast, Groves feels the winds of change. "When it began the First...

Metlakatla Pass Sites

Canadian Encyclopedia;    DAVID J.W. ARCHER;   158 words ......Metlakatla Pass Sites Author: DAVID J.W. ARCHER Metlakatla Pass, or Venn Passage, located 4 km west of PRINCE RUPERT on the northern BC coast, is a narrow, protected channel, 5 km long, separating Digby Island from Tsimpsean Peninsula. The area is noted for its density...

TimberWest announces 2005 third quarter results and January 2006...

PR Newswire;  October 26, 2005 ;     787 words ......performance remains extremely important to TimberWest. Being the BC coast's largest second-growth operation helps with our safety performance...Falls is one of the best performing whitewood mills on the BC coast. It has a strong management team and a skilled, highly motivated...

Above Average Temperatures Forecast for Most Of Canada's Grain Belt.

Resource News International;  January 4, 2001 ;     537 words ......temperatures in the next six to ten days (Jan 9 to Jan 13), while the BC coast will experience below normal temperatures. Southern Alberta...with wind and rain continuing. Light showers will dominate the BC coast all day on Monday. Highs for the period will reach about 7...