Cortes Island, a northern Gulf Island between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland, is home to some of the last 1% of old-growth Douglas-fir groves that remain within the endangered “Dry Maritime” forests along the southern coast of BC. These rare old-growth stands are privately owned by corporate logging giant Mosaic Forest Management.
In 2022, after years of unrelenting advocacy and fundraising, a local conservation group named The Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society reached an agreement to acquire two of the five old-growth parcels owned by Mosaic. Mosaic has placed the remaining three properties into their BigCoast Forest Climate Initiative that will defer any logging plans for at least 30 years while the trust works to acquire them and provide permanent protection.
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