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British Columbia Ancient Forests News Posted July 9, 2015 Canada's Two Grandest Old-Growth Forests Under Logging Threat by the Teal-Jones Group!Ancient Forest Alliance, July 9, 2015
Port Renfrew – Surrey-based forestry company, the Teal-Jones Group, is aggressively moving forward with plans to log and build roads into Canada’s two most magnificent old-growth forests, the Central Walbran Ancient Forest (about 500 hectares) and the Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forest (about 1500 hectares) on southern Vancouver Island. The company is planning eight new cutblocks (clearcuts) and a new road in the Central Walbran, and two new cutblocks and a new road on Edinburgh Mountain. The Walbran Valley is home to perhaps Canada’s finest stand of old-growth redcedars, the Castle Grove, while Edinburgh Mountain is where “Big Lonely Doug” (discovered last year by Ancient Forest Alliance activists to be Canada’s 2nd largest Douglas-fir tree – alas, completely surrounded by a 2012 clearcut) still stands and where the threatened "Christy Clark Grove" (ie. Lower Edinburgh Grove) is located in the Gordon River Valley. Maclean’s Magazine recently featured the Ancient Forest Alliance’s video of tree-climbers at Edinburgh Mountain scaling Big Lonely Doug among a series of videos featuring “Canada’s greatest people, places, and experiences” – see: http://site.macleans.ca/
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