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\"Glade
Heather McIntyre and her grandson Carmi Restrick collect water samples and record the temperature of Glade Creek. This daily community monitoring program began two years ago and is an effort to provide hard evidence should the proposed logging go ahead and the community’s water is negatively affected. Photo: Louis Bockner \/ The Narwhal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2018You can\u2019t drink money\u2019: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Glade, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek \u2014 even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean waterSarah Cox<\/a> Jul 20, 2019  17 min read<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years ago, on a morning hike with her husband, Heather McIntyre spotted red and white flagging tape near a creek that supplies much of the drinking and irrigation water for her village of Glade in a pastoral Kootenay valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tape marked logging boundaries and roads and was stamped with \u201cKLC,\u201d the initials of a local timber company, Kalesnikoff Lumber Co., which planned to log in the community\u2019s watershed on the slopes of a low-lying Selkirk Mountain in the interior rainforest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe kind of panicked,\u201d said McIntyre, who lives in a yellow strawbale house amidst a patchwork of fruit and vegetable gardens, in a community named Dolina Plodorodnaya by its Doukhobor founders, meaning \u201cfertile valley.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Glade<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The community of Glade sits on the banks of the Kootenay River near Nelson, B.C. The Glade Creek watershed has been at the centre of an ongoing dispute between community members and two logging companies \u2014 ATCO and Kalesnikoff Lumber Co \u2014 who have been given cut permits in the drainage. Photo: Louis Bockner \/ The Narwhal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverybody in the lower part of Glade gets their\u00a0water<\/a>\u00a0from the creek and the logging flagging was right above the creek,\u201d McIntyre told The Narwhal. \u201cWe\u2019re using a lot of water in summer for irrigating and then there\u2019s our drinking water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018You can\u2019t drink money\u2019: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water In Glade, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek \u2014 even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean waterSarah Cox Jul 20, 2019  17 min read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[94,2749,26373,1595,866],"class_list":["post-47471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-drinking-water","tag-kootenay","tag-logging","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47472,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47471\/revisions\/47472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}