
Nahmint Valley Partially Deferred
Home to monumental and centuries old trees, a variety of wildlife including old-growth dependent species (such as the marbled murrelet), and supporting significant salmon and steelhead spawning runs, the Nahmint Valley is one of the largest tracts of remaining old-growth forests on Vancouver Island outside of Clayoquot Sound. A popular destination for hikers, campers, and anglers, and hosting remarkable ancient forests, lakes, rugged peaks, swimming holes, and gorgeous turquoise canyons, the area is considered by many to be one of the most scenic places in BC.
Partially Deferred

McKelvie Valley Now Deferred
The McKelvie Valley is the last intact watershed in the Tahsis region and is home to rare, ancient Douglas-fir stands, provides high quality habitat for the endangered marbled murrelet, ensures clean water for the town of Tahsis, and is an important spawning ground for wild salmon.
Now Deferred

Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forest At Risk
Home to monumental and centuries old trees, a variety of wildlife including old-growth dependent species (such as the marbled murrelet), and supporting significant salmon and steelhead spawning runs, the Nahmint Valley is one of the largest tracts of remaining old-growth forests on Vancouver Island outside of Clayoquot Sound. A popular destination for hikers, campers, and anglers, and hosting remarkable ancient forests, lakes, rugged peaks, swimming holes, and gorgeous turquoise canyons, the area is considered by many to be one of the most scenic places in BC.
At Risk

Katlum Creek Now Deferred
Katlum Creek is home to endangered ancient Douglas-fir stands, as well as old-growth hemlock, amabilis fir, and cedars.
Now Deferred

Cameron Firebreak Now Deferred
Just a half hour drive from Cathedral Grove is an ancient forest that is just about as impressive – the Cameron Valley Ancient Forest or “Firebreak.” This area is a valley-bottom-to-mountain-top old-growth Douglas-fir forest that was originally left as a moist, old-growth rainforest firebreak to stifle the spread of forest fires raging through the dry clearcuts.
Now Deferred

McLaughlin Ridge Now Deferred
Conservationists are calling on the BC government to purchase and protect a 500-hectare tract of ancient Douglas-fir forest near Port Alberni that biologists have classified as both critical habitats for wintering deer and nesting endangered Queen Charlotte goshawks.
Now Deferred

Mossy Maple Rainforest Now Deferred
The unprotected “Mossy Maple Grove” is a several kilometer long stretch of enormous old-growth Bigleaf maple trees – some as much as 2 meters (7 feet) wide in trunk diameter – completely draped in hanging gardens of mosses and ferns found along a creek just south of Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island.
Now Deferred

Mount Horne Now Deferred
Canada’s most famous old-growth forest, Cathedral Grove, has been visited by millions of people around the world. Sadly, due to inaction by the BC government, the mountainside above this world-famous grove, Horne Mountain, has been clearcut by Mosaic (previously Island Timberlands). This has fragmented extremely rare and endangered ancient Douglas-fir stands, of which 99% have been logged on BC’s coast, and will likely adversely impact the park below through increased erosion and siltation.
Now Deferred

Provincial Old-Growth Protection Strategy At Risk
The Ancient Forest Alliance is calling for the provincial government to establish a BC Old-Growth Protection Strategy that would ensure comprehensive, legislated protection for BC’s ancient forests on public/Crown lands. The science-based plan would incorporate timelines to immediately end old-growth logging in “critically endangered” forests, and quickly phase out old-growth logging where there is a “high risk” to biological diversity and ecosystem integrity.
At Risk

Central Walbran Valley Now Deferred
The Central Walbran Valley on southern Vancouver Island is the grandest old-growth rainforest in Canada.
Now Deferred

Echo Lake Now Protected
Echo Lake is a spectacular, unprotected, lowland ancient forest near Agassiz, BC, in a region where virtually all of the valley bottom old-growth forests have been logged.
Now Protected

Provincial Land Acquisition Fund At Risk
A Provincial Land Acquisition Fund would allow for the purchase and protection of BC’s most endangered ecosystems on private lands to sustain wildlife, clean water, recreation and tourism.
At Risk