This little lake, just outside of the Walbran watershed on southern Vancouver Island in Ditidaht & Pacheedaht territory, is ringed with beautiful and majestic old-growth temperate rainforest. The massive standing and fallen logs (like the giant Sitka spruce snag), multitudes of dense, towering giants, and sheets of hanging mosses everywhere are so grand here that they resemble the famed forests of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
Unfortunately, this small fringe of Canada’s finest ancient forest is in jeopardy. Despite it being protected within an Old-Growth Management Area, logging operations have steadily stripped the old-growth forests surrounding the lake. More recently, the mountainside above, which itself was previously within an Old-Growth Management Area, was clearcut after Western Forest Products was granted permission to remove it in trade for forests elsewhere.
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Photography by TJ Watt.
