Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance

07/25/2025

https://news.ubc.ca/2025/07/clear-cutting-flood-risk/

New research finds long-term impacts on flood size and frequency decades after trees are removed

07/17/2025

With our last bin having been picked up this morning, the OFTF/PWPA 2025 Peachland watershed clean-up is now complete. In total, we removed 58,307lbs. of garbage and metal from our local backcountry. Thanks to everyone who helped out!!! ❤

06/26/2025

ANOTHER STUDY FINDS INDUSTRIAL FORESTRY & COMMERCIAL CLEARCUT LOGGING OF OVER 80% OF OUR PRIMARY FORESTS CAUSES DROUGHT & WILDFIRES OF INCREASED DURATION, SEVERITY & FREQUENCY.
In British Columbia, Canada, logging companies have clear cut 80% of the province’s primary forest and replanted commercial monocultures. They typically burn moisture-holding deciduous trees and spray herbicides from the air to limit their regrowth, simultaneously killing life in the soil. Primary forests can hold ten times more species of soil-binding, water-distributing mycorrhizal fungi than young plantations6. Heavy machinery used in industrial logging also compacts the soil. The end result may be a lot of trees on the land, but they are not absorbing, storing, and transpiring water as effectively as their ancient and diverse predecessors. So many community members are missing, in fact, that some ecologists refuse to call these plantations forests. But to global climate models, the two are interchangeable.https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-025-00455-2

06/26/2025

This is how BC's forestry sector battles climate change, they chop down all our trees and burn 50% them- deciduous, bushes, berries, ,branches, roots, limbs, tops, this is lazy, profiteering and corner cutting business practices, they calls it ''waste'', we call it ecocide!

06/26/2025

2025 Civic Grants
The District received two grant applications for the 2025 Civic Grant program. Council approved the $1,000 grant and gratis use requested for the Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance but increased the civic grant for the Peachland Food Bank to $6,000 for 2025 due to increased need. Year over year dedicated civic grants (for up to three years) were previously approved by Council in 2024. Groups receiving dedicated grants this year are:

Our Space (Peachland Community Arts Council, Bat Ecological and Educational Society and the Okanagan Folk School, and the Bat Education and Ecological Protection Society) $21,000
Peachland Wellness Centre $15,000
Peachland Citizens on Patrol/Community Police $4,150
Peachland Historical Society $20,000
Peachland Fall Fair $3,000/Gratis Use
The approved budget for 2025 included an amount of $72,230 for Civic Grants.

06/23/2025

DOCUMENTARY CONFIRMS EXCESSIVE FORESTRY ADDS TO FLOODING, RURAL BC-YOUR COMMUNITY SHOULD HOST A SCREENING!
“What is happening in the Kettle River basin is typical of what has been happening and will continue to happen for decades in other drainages across all of B.C.,” Alila says loss of forest cover from industrial logging is being linked to numerous extreme weather disasters in Canada.
WATCH NOW:

Trouble in the Headwaters (Summer 2025) is a powerful 25-minute documentary exploring the root causes behind the devastating floods in Grand Forks, British C...

06/19/2025

This weekend...3 spots left!