Members of Spuzzum First Nation are “furious” after the federal government reversed course on an emergency order to protect the endangered northern spotted owl.
Spuzzum Chief James Hobart said his nation’s anger comes after the Canadian Wildlife Service, a branch of the Department of Environment, informed him that the federal government would not carry out an emergency order to prevent logging in two watersheds in the Fraser Canyon.
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