Nowhere in Canada is there a national park candidate of greater qualifications than Whistler's wilderness, the 500,000 hectare proposed Stoltmann National Park. Read about our efforts in 1999 to get the government of Canada to come to the rescue of the Stoltmann Wilderness by halting the logging of the Elaho Valley and other areas of ancient temperate rainforest near world famous Whistler BC.

Save Whistler's 1,300-Year-Old Douglas Firs

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.18 - No.07 - Summer 1999

Which future do you support for Whistler's Wilderness?

Ugly clearcuts and big stumps?

Interfor's machinery blocks the public road leading to the proposed National Park for three weeks in late June and early July 1999, 24-hours-a-day, while its crew builds a logging road and bridge leading to the Lava Creek ancient Douglas fir grove. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams

After the heavy winter snows finally melted in June, Interior's crew quickly bulldozed this logging road to the edge of Lava Creek. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams

Too late, little Joey, a young visitor to the proposed National Park, sees only the stumps and logs of the once beautiful "Serenity Grove". Photo credit: Joe Foy.

Interfor clearcut in late 1998 destroyed "Serenity Grove" just to the south of Lava Creek which also had 1000-year-old firs. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams

Interfor's bridge-building crew works overtime constructing a bridge over Lava Creek on Canada Day, 1999, rushing to access the grove containing Canada's oldest known living Douglas fir trees that grow just beyond. Photo credit: Joe Foy.


Or ancient oldgrowth rainforests and giant trees?

View, from Bear Bluffs, of the Elaho Valley with its rich rainforest and ancient Douglas fir trees. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams.

Thousand-year-old redcedar trees and Douglas firs grow side by side in the grove that Interior wants to log next. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams.

Crossing Lava Creek on cable car, part of the Wilderness Committee's 30 km. hiking trail system that connects the Upper Elaho Valley to Meager Creek Hotsprings. Photo credit: Joe Foy.

1300-year-old-fir giant with 15-year-old high school student posing for a poster for Western Canada Wilderness Committee to help save this grove and all of the Stoltmann and Whistler's wilderness. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams.

Serenity waterfall is a scenic backdrop for Lava Camp located along the Stoltmann Elaho-to-Meager hiking trail built by hundreds of Wilderness Committee volunteers in the summers of 1995-98. Photo credit: Jeremy Williams.


Stoltmann Wilderness, a National Park or a national disgrace?

Thousand-year-old trees of Serenity Grove lie by the side of the road in an interfor clearcut, along the road to the Lava Creek Grove. Photo credit:

View from Bear Bluffs along the Doug Fir Loop Trail near the Lava Creek Grove. Photo credit: