The Western Canada Wilderness Committee (“WCWC”) appealed a decision of a chambers judge setting aside the WCWC’s petition for judicial review of a Ministry of Forests District Manager’s decision (“DM”) that a logging cutback referred to in a Forest Development Plan (“FDP”) met the requirement of s.41(1) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c.159 (the “Code”) as it related to the spotted owl, in that the FDP would “adequately manage and conserve the forest resources of the area to which it applied”. The appeal was dismissed.

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Administrative law – Environmental issues – Forest practices – Precautionary principle – Wildlife habitat – Spotted Owl – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Standard of review – Patent unreasonableness Western Canada Wilderness Committee v. British Columbia (Ministry of Forestry, South Island Forest District), [2003] B.C.J. No. 1581, British Columbia Court of Appeal, July 8, ...