One of BC's most beloved parks, MacMillan Park, which is part of Cathedral Grove, is threatened from overuse, logging at its boundaries, blow-down of its towering ancient Douglas firs and a five-acre parking lot proposed to be built in critical elk winter feeding range. Located alongside Highway 4, the only highway leading to Port Alberni and Clayoquot Sound, MacMillan Park's main problem is that it is too small. This paper lays out WCWC's 2004 campaign to protect and expand this most famous of BC's provincial parks.

Cathedral Grove: Last Remnant of BC's Vanishing Douglas Fir Forest

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.23-No.06 - Summer 2004

Credits

Writing: Annette Tanner.
Editing: Louise A. Pedersen & Syd Haskell.
Mapping: Geoff Senichenko.
Photos: as noted in photo captions.
Web publishing: Gil Aquilar, Anton van Walraven

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol. 23 No. 6 - Summer 2004. Canadian Mail Product Sales Agreement No. 0900567 Posted in Vancouver. Printed in Canada on recycled newsprint with vegetable-based inks.

© WCWC 2004. All rights reserved. Press Run 20,000. Written material may be used without permission when credit is given to WCWC.

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