...create public will to save the Stoltmann Wilderness
Artist Diana Dean paints in the Elaho Valley for the 1996 Stoltmann fundraising artshow. Over a hundred artists participated and donated works of art for WCWC's silent auction raising over $18,000 for the campaign to save the Stoltmann Wilderness.
For two months in 1996 WCWC "camps out" at the Victoria legislature with a "flying tent" demanding Lower Mainland Parks Planning public input and park protection for the entire Stoltmann Wilderness area.
Summer of 1996 WCWC trail building volunteers working on the Elaho to Meager Creek trail pose for a group photo (with their loppers).
Chief Bill Williams of the Squamish First Nation speaks to those gathered at a Save the Stoltmann Wilderness rally at the Vancouver Art Museum in 1997.
Hebe Kelly, WCWC's Research Camp Coordinator inspects one of the "Elaho Giants" that her team of volunteers had measured, mapped and number tagged in the Summer of 2000 along the Doug Fir Loop Trail north of Lava Creek.
WCWC's Rainforest Research Station in the Elaho Valley in the summer of 1999.
WCWC founder Paul George being Interviewed by a newspaper reporter at a protest rally outside lnterfor's Vancouver headquarters in May 2000.
Chris Player, WCWC campaigner counts over 1000 growth rings on a Douglas fir felled by Interfor In the spring of 2000.
Long time WCWC Volunteer Tony Hilton records the measurements he made a ancient Douglas fir in the Elaho Valley while working at the Millennial Tree Research Camp in the Summer, 2000.
WCWC volunteers build a ladder suspension bridge over Lava Creek In late fall 1996.
At a June 16, 2000 media conference, representatives of WCWC, Raincoast Conservation Society, Forest Action Network, Valhalla Wilderness Society, and Friends of Clayoquot Sound call for a boycott of Interfor's wood products because of the company's destructive logging of coastal ancient temperate rainforest and violent behavior towards conservationists trying to protect it.
WCWC protesters jeer then-Premier Glen Clark at his October 1996 press conference where he announced thta only 20 percent of the Stoltmann Wilderness would be protected and Elaho and Sims Valleys would be logged.
Interfor loggers blockade public access road to the Elaho and Sims Valleys of the Stoltmann Wilderness for six weeks in the summer of 1997 letting by only those who agreed to sign a petition supporting their logging of the Stoltmann Wilderness.
WCWC's display round taken from the stump of an 1150-year-old Douglas fir cut by Interfor in 1997.
With permission from the B.C. Forest Service, a volunteer chainsaws the top off a Douglas fir stump in the Upper Elaho in the fall of 1997. The tree had been cut earlier that same year by Interior. WCWC has dated this round (1150 years) for a dramatic historic display.
Betty Krawczyk, a 71-year-old grandmother, is being arrested in May 2000 for blockading the Squamish logging road for a second time as part of her ongoing passionate efforts to save the Stoltmann rainforest. She has served 67 days in jail for this crime!
Stoltmann Campaign Coordinator, Director Joe Foy, addresses those attending the 1995 Summer Solstices Gathering in a large clearcut at the beginning of the Stoltmann Wilderness in the Elaho Valley (one of the first events of the fight to save this area).
David Ball, volunteer, goes the entire distance wheeling waste wood wedges to the Premier in Victoria from a clearcut in the Elaho on WCWC "Wedge to the Ledge" Trek in the Summer 2000.
