Steve Rogel, CEO
Weyerhaeuser
Mail Stop CH 2D23
33663 Weyerhaeuser Way South
Federal Way, WA 98003

RE: Stop logging the Upper Walbran Valley

Dear Mr. Rogel,

I care deeply about the future of the endangered Upper Walbran Valley in British Columbia. The Upper Walbran Valley, with record-sized red cedars, Douglas firs, and Sitka spruce trees, is among BC's most spectacular remaining ancient rainforests. The valley supports cougars, wolves, black bears, and Roosevelt elk, as well as "species at risk" including marbled murrelet seabirds, Queen Charlotte goshawks, Vaux's swifts, Keen's and Townsen's long-eared myotics, red-legged frogs, and threatened runs of steelhead trout and coho salmon.

Already, 40% of the Upper Walbran has been logged by companies like Weyerhaeuser. The remaining 60% contains some of BC's most magnificent ancient forest. Logging our old growth forests and replanting them with young trees does not replicate the original, structurally-diverse habitat needed by old-growth dependent species.

Please set aside the endangered Upper Walbran Valley and other ecologically important valleys, including the Klanawa and East Valleys, from industrial logging. These unique forests must be saved for future generations and for the recreational opportunities, clean air and clean water they provide for the province.

I encourage you to work with Rainforest Action Network to meet the challenge of adopting a global policy to address local and global environmental needs, starting with saving the Upper Walbran old growth forests from continued logging.

copy to:
The Honourable Gordon Campbell
Premier of British Columbia
Box 9041
Station PROV GOVT
Victoria, BC
Canada V8W 9E1

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