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Cameron FirebreakDec 5 2014

VIDEO: Port Alberni Old-Growth Threatened by Island Timberlands

Dec 5 2014/Video

Watch the latest video by filmmaker Daniel J Pierce who has spent years documenting the controversies surrounding old-growth logging by Island Timberlands – this time at McLaughlin Ridge and the Cameron Valley Ancient Forest near Port Alberni, featuring the campaign led by the Port Alberni Watershed-Forest Alliance, whom the Ancient Forest Alliance has been working with for many years!

Watch the film on Vimeo here.
Read more about the Ancient Forest Alliance’s campaign to create a BC Park Acquisition Fund.

Learn more about Island Timberlands’ logging in Port Alberni and to support the Watershed Forest Alliance.

Video by Daniel J. Pierce, director of Heartwood: A West Coast Documentree

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Ancient Forest Alliance

The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is a registered charitable organization working to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable, value-added, second-growth forest industry.

AFA’s office is located on the territories of the Lekwungen Peoples, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
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