Ancient Forest Alliance
Nov 3 2013

Cathedral Grove threatened by nearby logging, conservationist says

“Cathedral Grove is B.C.’s iconic old-growth forest that people around the world love – it’s like the redwoods of Canada. The fact that a company can just move to log the mountainside above Canada’s most famous old-growth forest – assisted by the B.C. government’s previous deregulation of those lands and their current failure to take responsibility – underscores the brutal collusion between the B.C. Liberal government and the largest companies to liquidate our ancient forest heritage.”

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Nov 3 2013

Anthony Britneff: The Liberals’ forest plans are not sustainable

"With the recent announcement that two sawmills in the communities of Quesnel and Houston will close with the loss of more than 430 jobs, the time has come to face an unpleasant but necessary truth.  Our forests are so depleted as a result of the unprecedented Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak and more than a decade-long logging frenzy in response to it, that we cannot possibly sustain the sawmilling industry that we currently have.  The provincial government has known for years that this would happen, yet did nothing of consequence to prepare for it.  Worse, it now appears to be using the unfolding crisis to set the stage for the virtual privatization of British Columbia’s public forests, a move that it knows full well most members of the public oppose."

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Nov 2 2013

B.C. old-growth logging plan slammed by conservationists

"Conservation groups are demanding forestry company Island Timberlands abandon plans to log old-growth forest on the perimeter of a Vancouver Island provincial park. The company is building a logging road to a site that sits 300 metres from the border of MacMillan Provincial Park, best noted for a protected stand of old-growth trees within the park known as Cathedral Grove."

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Nov 2 2013

Douglas Firs in jeopardy: conservationists

"People on Vancouver Island fear a stand of old-growth Douglas Firs near Cathedral Grove is about to be logged.Conservationists have seen evidence of a logging road being built into the patch of forest. 'We have already lost 99 per cent of the old growth coastal Douglas Firs.'”

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Nov 1 2013

Cathedral Grove, Canada’s Most Famous Old-Growth Forest, Under Threat as Island Timberlands Moves to Log Adjacent Old-Growth Mountainside

Port Alberni, Vancouver Island – Cathedral Grove, Canada’s most famous old-growth forest, is under threat as one of the province’s largest logging companies, Island Timberlands, began falling a new logging road right-of-way last week towards a stand of old-growth Douglas-fir trees on the mountainside above Cathedral Grove. Cathedral Grove is in the 300 hectare MacMillan Provincial Park, an area smaller than Vancouver’s Stanley Park, located along the Cameron River at the base of Mount Horne where the planned logging would occur.

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