See below for downloadable images from the Walbran Valley, Vancouver Island, BC.

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LOGGING ACTIVITY, NOVEMBER 2015

These photos were taken on a Wilderness Committee expedition to the Walbran Valley on November 10, 2015. 

Worksite in the Walbran Valley. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

Police presence in the Walbran Valley, near cutblock #4424. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

CUTBLOCK #4424

These photos were taken on a Wilderness Committee and Sierra Club BC expedition into an old-growth forest grove in logging company Teal Jones' cutblock #4424, which was approved by the BC government on Sept. 18, 2015.

      

Old-growth trees in Black Diamond Grove, part of the recently-approved cutblock in the central Walbran Valley. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

     

Old-growth trees in Black Diamond Grove, part of the recently-approved cutblock in the central Walbran Valley. (Credit: Mark Worthing)

 

Black Diamond Grove from across the Walbran Valley. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

      

The "Leaning Tower Cedar" – old-growth redcedar tree in Black Diamond Grove, within the recently approved cutblock. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

The "Leaning Tower Cedar" – old-growth redcedar tree in Black Diamond Grove, within the recently approved cutblock. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

Sierra Club BC's Mark Worthing sits on an old-growth stump in earlier Teal Jones clearcut near Black Diamond Grove. (Credit: Torrance Coste)

 

Additional photos available upon request. 

 

Map of the Central Walbran Valley showing recently approved cutblock and Black Diamond Grove. (Credit: Geoff Senichenko, Wilderness Committee)