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My favorite section of the Halvor Lunden Trail, where you emerge from the replanted dense forest and find the first old growth giants. You can see from the undergrowth that this is still not recovered forest, if you go higher you can find pristine old growth with bright green undergrowth. Quite a special feeling to see such old living things. #pnw #oldgrowth #hiking #nature

A beautiful moss covered Western red #cedar #tree - still unprotected.
Only a human, with a compromised & unwell soul, would be OK killing an elder tree this magnificent. Some things are just plain wrong.

These ancient old growth trees are essential to fighting accelerated #ClimateChange. #OldGrowth ecosystems in our coastal temperate rainforests supports much biodiverse lifeforms. The naturally moist environment helps to lower impacts of wildfires & other natural disasters that have increased as our governments continue to fund & enable more ecocidal projects.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.

The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.

#SelfPortrait with ancient elder yellow #cedar #tree. I have a longtime deep connection with #OldGrowth #forests & have spent decades of activism work to try to save & protect them from ecocidal monsters.

How we think about nature, how we treat wild living ecosystems, speaks volumes on our personal character. If we become too disconnected from wild nature, we will turn into demons who destroy our natural life forces.

We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

#ThrowbackThursday
2021.

I still am unable to go back here physically because it would break my heart too much. I spent almost 9 months, on/off, in the forest - trying to save the old growth trees here. The trees you see on the mountain slopes here are all gone. They were clearcut since this photo was taken from a resistance camp, higher up in the valley. I have seen aerial photos of what this spot looked like in 2023 - so many damn #ecocidal clearcuts into #AncientForest groves. This backs into #Carmannah #Walbran Park - which was also under threat of logging for awhile. It had to be blockaded before protection was granted. Avatar Grove & a few other #OldGrowth areas on Southern #VancouverIsland were given protection because activists fought hard to gain it.