Meares Island- tells the story
The Friends of Clayoquot Sound and Western Canada Wilderness Commit-tee are working together intensively to print a book telling the Meares story through 32 pages of colour pictures and 32 pages of hard hitting text. It will be available in the middle of July.
The forward, written by Moses Martin, elected Chief of the Clayoquot Band during the confrontation last winter, explains the importance of Meares to the people who have lived on the Island for over 5,000 years.
Only $12.00, with all the proceeds going to help save Meares Island, the book provides a superlative description of the biological significance of Meares' -beautiful virgin forests, the story of current mismanagement of the forests in Clayoquot Sound, and a summary of the political battle, culminating in the recent precedent-setting court cases, to save Meares Island.
The book concludes by comparing this effort to protect Meares' old growth with world-wide efforts to save the Rainforests - for the health of the planet. Copies can be ordered, while they last, from either the Friends or the Wilderness Committee.
