#old-growth

[topless69661]

West Vancouver, British Columbia

[photographyartgallery]

Kerstin, Next to an Old-Growth Stump, Coos County, Oregon by Robert Adams

[hwy95eh]

We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees | The Narwhal

When conservationist Eddie Petryshen learned BC Timber Sales was auctioning off cutblocks in a globally rare inland temperate rainforest tha

"Petryshen, who works for the conservation group Wildsight, is on a detective mission of sorts. He’s about to bushwhack into the Nagle Creek Valley, 150 kilometres north of Revelstoke, B.C., to ground-truth provincial government logging maps he obtained in May." - READ MORE over on The Narwhal

[amylivinglife]

Old-growth forests are so incredible.

Oregon. September 2014.

[earthstory]

The Niepołomice Forest This image, taken by the Landsat 8 spacecraft, shows a remarkable forest in Poland. This forest, surrounded by farms and towns…is remarkable mostly in that it still exists. This is a tiny slice of what Europe was like prior to heavy development. This forest is an old-growth forest that has been protected from development for nearly 800 years. In the 13th century, it was protected in part as a royal hunting ground for animals like boar, wolves, and bison. Since then, it has gradually shrunk as different groups used it for supplies and wood. To this day though, small portions of the old-growth forest still exist, with trees dating back hundreds of years. -JBB Image credit: NASA/Landsat http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82464

[skepticalspectacles]

Cathedral Grove, with its majestic 800 year old ancient Douglas-fir trees, is the most famous old-growth forest in Canada. It lies within a small park, MacMillan Provincial Park, at the base of Mount Horne. Millions of people from around the world visit this incredible grove every year on their way to the West Coast of Vancouver Island and the town of Tofino.

However, logging giant Island Timberlands is currently building a road in order to log a cutblock on the mountainside above Cathedral Grove. This will fragment the continuous forest cover on the slope above Cathedral Grove, including some of the last 1% of BC’s old-growth coastal Douglas-fir trees and a deer winter range; increase erosion and siltation into the park in the Cameron River; and ruin part of the Mount Horne Loop Trail that the cutblock overlaps.

See PHOTOS and a MAP of the flagged logging cutblock at:  www.ancientforestalliance.org/photos.php?gID=24

See a recent news release at:  www.ancientforestalliance.org/news-item.php?ID=709

Island Timberlands is currently logging or intending to log endangered old-growth forests throughout the southern coast of BC, including McLaughlin Ridge, the Cameron Valley Firebreak, Labour Day Lake, Juniper Ridge, Cortes Island, Stillwater Bluffs, the Day Road Forest, and Pearl Lake.

On BC’s southern coast, already 75% of the original ancient forest has been logged including over 90% of the valley bottoms where the largest trees grow – and 99% of the old-growth coastal Douglas-fir trees. See “before” and “after” old-growth maps at:  www.ancientforestalliance.org/old-growth-maps.php

Old-growth forests are vital to sustain wildlife, endangered species, tourism, clean water, the climate, and many First Nations cultures.

SPEAK UP! We need Island Timberlands to BACK OFF and the BC Liberal government to protect the ecological integrity of Cathedral Grove and the province’s endangered old-growth forests!

[apassablewilderness]

Let's save some trees, guys.

[apassablewilderness]

Guys, help save some nature! Sign this petition! We all like those nature blog photos, but if we don't do something, there's going to be no undisturbed nature for us to blog about.