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Bull Trout Photo Credit: Calgary Herald

On Tuesday we reported on a story relating that the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, on Monday, declared bull trout, the Provincial Fish of Alberta, to be threatened in both Alberta and Saskatchewan (see story below). Yesterday, more bad news for bull trout as reported in the Calgary Herald;

Logging plan in home of at-risk species draws fire

A decision to allow logging near Hidden Creek, a tributary stream to the Oldman River that’s home to the threatened bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout, is coming under fire from conservationists.

   The plan, approved by the province last month, allows Spray Lakes Sawmills to cut trees on 57 hectares of forest this winter near the stream in the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies.

   Hidden Creek is home to 75 per cent of the Oldman watershed’s bull trout population, which was declared threatened Monday by a federal committee, as well as the imperiled westslope cutthroat trout.

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Canadian bull trout just can’t seem to catch a break. Hidden Creek is one of the last sanctuaries for bull trout in the Oldman River drainage and holds one of the most important remaining bull trout populations in the province. The Hidden Creek population has been in decline for the past 60 years due to industrial activity in the basin.
Following the much touted declaration by the B.C. government that they were banning coal mining and drilling for oil and gas in the upper Flathead in 2011, we only recently learned that,

The B.C. mining ban, legislated one year ago in November 2011, has no legal effect over 6,290 hectares of federally owned Dominion Coal Blocks in the headwaters of the Flathead River Valley which are being considered for development.
“The news is even more alarming because these coal blocks stretch across a globally significant wildlife corridor that the United Nations’ World Heritage Committee called on B.C. to conserve,” said Sierra Club BC spokesperson Sarah Cox. “In addition to the new coal mining threat, the Flathead is slated for intensive logging which has already begun. Contrary to statements by the B.C. government, the Flathead is not permanently protected.”

It seems that the basin and its important native fish populations is not as secure from industrial development as we had thought on the northern side of the border, not to mention that the reciprocal protective legislation for the U.S. Flathead remains tied up in the ugly mess that we call Congress.

So, don’t take your gloves off just yet folks. There is still a lot of work to do, on both sides of the border, if we are to protect these one-of-a-kind resources for our children and their children.