Protect this ancient forest forever
Will your children and grandchildren be able to experience and learn from this ancient forest in Carmanah Valley? Not if the logging industry has its way.
Environmentalists want the whole 6,730 hextare Carmanah watershed protected as a logical addition to Pacific Rim National Park. Why?
An analysis of the issue based on sustainable economics reveals that preserving the entire Carmanah valley is affordable and makes good long-term economic sense.
The Sitka's growing in Carmanah are the tallest spruces on record in the world. The ancient old-growth forest in this valley, taken in its totality, is perhaps Canada's finest left unlogged.
Preserving the entire ecosystem - the whole watershed - is the only long term ecologically sure way to protect the trees nestled within it.
As logging rapidly proceeds in B.C., and throughout the planet as a whole, we are losing, one by one, the ecological units and genetic resources which may be the only hope for survival of life on earth.
Clear-cut opening in the upper Carmanah watershed, part of about 150 hectares MB has already logged above the mid-valley where the spruce groves are found.
Valley visitors express their views
"Totally rad!" - Alex Fraser, Santa Cruz, California, August 7, 1988
"Some day we'll learn that the survival of wilderness means the survival of man." - Michael Hill, August 14 1988
"M and B leave our land alone." - Carolyn Knighton, Nitinaht, B.C.
"Clearcuts! Shame!" - Shirley Langer, Kingston, Ontario
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