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With the industrial extermination of the lucrative intact forests of Washington State, "Hoo Hoos" (a club for American lumbermen founded in Seattle in 1909) began buying up the lucrative ancient forests of Vancouver Island. By the 1950s the industrial plundering of BC's forests was consolidated in "Ruination Companies," namely transnational forest destruction corps. These powerful entities call the shots over stolen indigenous land and are eagerly aided served by their government handmaidens.

To keep their dirty business hidden from public critique and scrutiny, the devious ruination companies routinely "re brand" and change their names. Spew ing out Greenwash and stock market hype, they continue their wanton and devastating destruction of our vanishing rainforests and biodiversity on the West Coast.

Ainsworth Lumber — BC Forest Products — Canfor — Fibremax Timber — Fletcher Challenge
— Hayes Forest Service — International Forest Products (Interfor) — Island Timberlands —
MacMillan Bloedel — Pope & Talbot — Slocan Forest Products — Teal Jones — TimberWest
— West Fraser — Western Forest Products (WFP) — Weyerhaeuser — etc.


Interfor Massacre Nuxalk & Heiltsuk Land	Stumping for Canfor Premier of BC	TimberWest Vandalism Pacheedaht Land	Tree Farm Degradation Pacheedaht Land

Big Tree Kill Off Nitinaht Land	Clearcutting Paradise Vancouver Island	Stumping for Hayes Premier of BC	Forest Land Sell Off Fibremax Timber Corp

One does not have to go far in BC to see the results of the many decades of deforestation schemes by government and industry. Greenwash cannot hide the tragic loss of the ancient temperate rainforest due to commercial greed run rampant and shortsightedness.

After more than a decade of controversy, Ecologically Based Management (EBM) was supposed to have begun in the Great Bear Rainforest on 31 March 2009 when the BC government and industry grabbed headlines. But in the Bella Bella community everyone knows "There won't be any EBM for at least another year because it has to be filed in this year's logging plans" forest activist Ingmar Lee. Meanwhile, he says that the logging companies continue to clearcut as voraciously as ever, tearing apart ancient valley bottom riparian ecosystems to rip out the profitable big cedars.

Government Schemes

1947 – Tree Farm Licences (TFLs)
1950 – Timber Supply Areas (TSAs)
1992 – Forest Revitalisation Initiative
1996 – Forest Renewal BC
1998 – BC Assets and Land Corp
1999 – Tenure Reallocation
2002 – Forest Practices Code
2002 – Variable Retention
2002 – Special Management Zone (SMZ)

   Right: "Timber is a Crop"
   MacMillan Bloedel Tree Farm, 1947
   Franklin Division, Vancouver Island

2003 – BC Timber Sales (BCTS)
2003 – Forestry Innovation Investment (FII)
2004 – Forest & Range Practice Act
2004 – Working Forest
2005 – Private Forestlands Act
2006 – Ecologically Based Management (EBM)
2009 – Commercial Forests

Collaboration Schemes

BC Forest Information
BC Forest Products
Canadian Sustainable Forestry (CSF)
Canadian Standards Association (CSA)
Canadian Wood Council
Canadian Wood Export Program
Coast Forest Conservation Initiative
Forum for Research and Extension in
Natural Resources (FORREX)
Forest Stewartship Council (FSC)

   Right: "Forest Management"
   H. R. MacMillan Export, 1950
   Nanaimo River, Vancouver Island

Forestry Innovation Investment
Forintek Canada
Great Bear Rainforest
Greenspirit
Natural Resource Canada
Pacific Forest Centre
Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
Wood Promotion Network


SMZ Clearcut Vancouver Island	SFI Clearcut Vancouver Island	Pulp Mill Poisoning Vancouver Island	Weyerhaeuser Warfare Vancouver Island

Errington Cedar Mill Vancouver Island	Rainforest Clearcutting Vancouver Island		Raw Logs Export Vancouver Island

Crooked cronies are prevalent in colonial societies. They are unscrupulous figures in government and industry who use their leadership positions for personal gain, exchanging favours in making quasi legal fortunes from land grabs and resource extraction. Their eradication of the natural resources including ancient trees and primaeval forests is to the detriment of First Nations and, ultimately, of all inhabitants of British Columbia.

At the top of the long list of colonial oppressors is Joseph Trutch, a racist and a crook who committed untold damage to First Nations by stealing over 90 percent of the land deeded them by the first governor of the colony of Vancouver Island. Indigenous land owners in BC have never been recognized by the honchos of industry who have plotted with their government cronies, greasing all hands but those of most Natives.


English Colony Grabber Joseph Trutch	Scottish Coal Digger Robert Dunsmuir	German Lumber Leech Frederick Weyerhaeuser	Canadian Wood Worm Harvey MacMillan

Eco Judas Patrick Moore	Ms Collaboration Linda Coady	BC's Drunken Driver Gordon Campbell	Perfidious 'Ally' of Indians Mike de Young