Join the 1000+ supporters already signed on to our hard copy of the Petition, including some outstanding individuals such as:

Maude Barlow-The chair of the Council of Canadians, the country's largest citizens' advocacy group and the best sellling author of Blue Gold and her latest book Blue Covenant The Global Water Crisis and the coming battle for the right to water.

Rick Zammuto (Ph.D., RP Wildl Bio, CP Ecol), Certified Interdisciplinary Ecologist

Adrianne Carr: Deputy Leader Federal Green Party

Alex Atamanenko, M.P., BC Southern Interior
Federal NDP Critic for Agriculture, Agri-Food and Rural Affairs

Paul George - Wildlife Biologist, Founder of Western Canada Wilderness Committee

Wayne McCrory - Wildlife Biologist

Taress Alexis- Sinixt Nation Youth Representative

WHEREAS Perry Ridge has been identified on GIS forest cover maps (Valhalla Society, Nov. 2004) as a major intact area in the southern portion of the Inland Temperate Rainforest Region

WHEREAS Perry Ridge serves as an important connectivity corridor between Kokanee Glacier and Valhalla Parks

WHEREAS The Sinixt Nation has identified Perry Ridge as an important cultural wetland and is the location of many identified and unidentified significant archaeological sites

WHEREAS Perry Ridge is a unique geological landform and provides domestic drinking and agricultural water to hundreds of farms and homes along the base of the mountain

WHEREAS Perry Ridge is part of the scenic visual corridor along Highway 6 and as a major intact area is very important to the developing sustainable tourism industry in the Slocan Valley. (e.g. (Cross Canada Trail system - Rails To Trails along the Slocan River)

THEREFORE we the undersigned support Perry Ridge being added to Valhalla Park as an Ecological Reserve.