A plan to log part of a community watershed in the Slocan Valley despite a study pointing to low water flows has the users on that system in protest. The Dumont Creek Water Users Group began a petition and obtained 35 names of residents opposed to a proposal by Slocan Integral Forestry Cooperative (SIFCO) to log part of 598-hectare Winlaw Woodlot 1832. …spokesperson John Wittmayer said 300 of those hectares are where the headwaters of the Dumont Creek Watershed are located. SIFCO hired a consultant to supply a prescription to the Selkirk Natural Resource District — part of the Ministry of Forests — to commercially log and build haul roads through the most sensitive parts of the Dumont Creek watershed. The consultant is not a Professional Registered Forester, yet he’s been conducting himself as if he were, Wittmayer contended …the consultant has been supplying cutting and road building proposals to the Ministry of Forests, he added.