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A Kootenay-based conservation society is calling out B.C. Timber Sales (BCTS) for rhetoric they say is “misleading.” The Valhalla Wilderness Society said that they have had experience with “so-called” community planning processes for logging watersheds in B.C. “A community watershed planning process actually means a watershed logging process,” they said in an email to Castanet. …Environmentalists and forest managers have long had issue with the practice of clear cutting. A new report from the journal of hydrology said that clearcutting can make “catastrophic floods more frequent.” However, BCTS reiterated that their watershed forest plan would address public concerns about water quality, wildfire risks and impacts for future logging happening in the Bonnington area. …The Valhalla Wilderness Society has suggested Bonnington residents should have a professional fire risk assessment done independently from BCTS in order to remain impartial.