Entries by TJ Watt

Vancouver Business contributes to support ancient forests!

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The Ancient Forest Alliance would like to recognize Vancouver-based photographer Karen Cooper for her support for the AFA through sales of her beautiful plaque-mounted photographs of Echo Lake. A huge thanks for Karen for her continued creative support!

Plaques are still available (in sizes 5×7, 8×12 and 12×18) with 15% of proceeds donated to the AFA. To purchase one for yourself or as a gift, please get in touch with Karen through her website (www.karencooperphotography.com) or stop by her gallery on Granville Island (1506 Duranleau St.) to view her amazing artwork!
 

Thank you! Avatar Boardwalk support from Hemp & Co and Haircrafting!

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Thank you to Hemp and Company of Victoria and Haircrafting of North Vancouver for their creative business fundraisers supporting the construction of the Avatar Grove Boardwalk!

Twenty years after clash at Clayoquot Sound, activists see new wave of unrest on the horizon

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Twenty years after a protest led to massive arrests on logging roads in Clayoquot Sound the organizers say a lot has changed – but a lot hasn’t, and they predict a new generation of activists may soon be on the barricades again.

War in the Woods mass arrests 20 years ago prompted lasting change

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It is the quiet amid the chaos just as the logging trucks and police rolled in that Tzeporah Berman remembers acutely about the War in the Woods, the fight by environmentalists 20 years ago over Clayoquot Sound.  Every day for almost three months during the summer of 1993, Berman and hundreds of other protesters stared down the logging trucks destined for some of Canada's most pristine old-growth forests on Vancouver Island, B.C.

Clayoquot protest 20 years ago transformed face of environmentalism

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The protests at Clayoquot Sound, which lies just off Tofino on Vancouver Island’s outer coast of pristine beaches, rugged coastlines, islets, inlets and tranquil sheltered coves, represented the coalescing of public objections to clearcut logging plans by corporations who were following government policy in majestic old-growth forests.

Avatar Grove: the Extraordinary and the Ordinary

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A scant 10 minute walk off a logging road near the BC's West Coast town of Port Renfrew is Avatar Grove, a stand of old cedars so majestic, powerful and gnarled that T. F. Watt said he and his colleagues from the Ancient Forest Alliance "were running around like kids in a candy story" when they found it in 2009.

Province has until Thursday to buy Quadra Island park land with community-raised funds

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The government has until 3 p.m. Thursday to submit a bid to buy 395 hectares of waterfront property for sale by forest company Merrill & Ring, based in Washington state.

Quadra Island’s roughly 3,000 full-time residents have led a charge to raise more than $200,000, to try to push the province into action to save the property from logging or development.

Cougar den may have been lost to logging, Port Alberni man says

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“Island Timberlands has built a road right up to it, and there’s flagging tape right at the entrance,” said Ray McLellan, who has tracked and watched cougars at the small cave since he was growing up in Port Alberni in the 1970s.

Salon cuts hair in support of endangered forests

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If you can stave it off until Sunday (Aug. 4), you can get a cut from noted Vancouver master stylist Champ Waterhouse at the Spirit of the Sea Festival – and help protect endangered old-growth forests in B.C. in the bargain.