8-20-2018
SEATTLE, Wash. — The Mayor of Seattle wrote the B.C. Premier with what she calls “a grave concern”.
The Seattle Times reports Mayor Jenny Durkan admonished Premier John Horgan’s government for not consulting with the city of Seattle over a logging project 125 miles away at the headwaters of the Skagit River.
Durkan says the project undermines a treaty protecting land around the area that was geared toward protecting Chinook salmon and steelhead.
The B.C. government office that auctioned the areas for logging says the cutblocks in question represent only a small fraction of protected lands in the watershed.