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An International Flashpoint |
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Abuse of Aboriginal Title & Rights |
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Wilderness Annihilation |
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Corrupt Governance |
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Crushing of Environmentalism |
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Corporate Greed |
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A Brave Stand |
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Corporate Greed
The greed of the multinational logging industry in making huge profits from its virtual
monopoly of cutting rights on the public owned forest lands of British Columbia (BC) has resulted in a shocking spectacle
of degradation not expected in an advanced western nation like Canada. This painful loss of biodiversity is covered up
by greenwash rhetoric. In 2000 a German tourist photographed a clearcut in which thousand year old trees were massacred
(right), an act of eco carnage by Interfor (International Forest Products) in the Elaho Valley north of Vancouver (not
far from the 2010 Olympics venue at Whistler). A handful of multinational corporations controls the forest
industry in BC, a situation that results from government policy and laws designed to favour big business over
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Interfor stump, Elaho Ancient Forest, 2000
Photo: Carsten Brinkmeier
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 Singing Forest of Tenise Creek, an ancient cedar grove destroyed by industrial logging, BC, 1995.
Photo: Gabi Sittig |
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After clearcutting, Singing Forest.
Photo: Grant Trower |
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Before clearcutting, Singing Forest.
Photo: Matt Lowe |
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"Corporate Logging - Stolen Land - Stolen Trees -
Stolen Future"
Betty Krawczyk and the Women in the Woods blockade
Upper Walbran Valley, Vancouver Island, 2003 |
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Logging blockade, Upper Walbran, 1998.
Photo: Richard Boyce
Save Upper Walbran Valley One
of the most endangered ancient forest in BC is located in the Upper Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island, the traditional
territory of the Pacheedaht First Nation. Protesters were assaulted by 15 employees of Hayes Forest Service Company and
TimberWest in 1998 (above). See: Attack
of the Contractors. At another protest, on 9 October 2004, about 500 people gathered on a clearcut in the Walbran to send a
resolute message to Weyerhaeuser to stop logging here (right).
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Protest, Upper Walbran, 2004.
Photo: Jeremy Williams |
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Ancient Pacheedaht Forest - 1926 to 2007 - Stolen
and Destroyed
Sustained Exploitation: From Logging Camp to Lifestyle and Real Estate |
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1 - "Fallers Making An Undercut"
BC Forestry Service - 1926 |
2 - "Falled Tree and Men"
BC Forestry Service - 1926 |
3 - Government Fallers
BC Forestry Service - 1940 |
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4 - Ancient Mothers - Douglas firs
Photo by Tim Ennis - 2007 |
5 - New Logging Road
TimberWest cutblock - 2007 |
6 - Old Growth Timber
TimberWest log dump - 2007 |
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7 - Clearcut logged
TimberWest - 2007 |
8 - Clearcut logged
TimberWest - 2007 |
9 - Industrial Tree Plantation
Jordan River - 2004 |
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10 - Logging Road for Tourists
Port Renfrew Highway - 2007 |
11 - Wildwood Lifestyle Lots
Photo by John Harvey - 2006 |
12 - Stump of a Logged Tree
Pacheedaht Beach - 2007 |
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Pacheedaht First Nation Campground and R. V.
Photo: Port Renfrew Community
Port Renfrew was named in 1896 after a British lord who planned to make it a centre
for settlers. Since the logging industry began here in 1906, it has voraciously deforested the land.
Scars from the brutal clearcutting remain carved into the landscape (above). This is the homeland of
Pacheedaht
First Nation (Port Renfrew Community website). The Pacheedaht operate a campground at the start of the world
famous West Coast Trail. Only a very few giant trees around Port Renfrew have survived the greed of the forest
industry, the most famous being the
Red Creek Fir (right),
the largest of its kind in the world. For more information and photos, see:
Douglas
Fir, Then and Now. |
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Red Creek Fir, 2007.
Photo: Myklicious |
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