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Echo Lake of east Vancouver

Slideshow Presentation: The Ecology and Politics of BC’s Endangered Old-Growth Forests

When:    Friday  Nov 2
Time:     3:30 - 4:30 pm
Where:   Forest Sciences Center 1221, University of BC, Vancouver
 
Join Ken Wu of the Ancient Forest Alliance (www.AncientForestAlliance.org) and Cori Creba of the UBC Ancient Forest Committee for a spectacular slideshow on the ecology, wildlife, biggest trees, and politics surrounding BC's old-growth forests including at Echo Lake east of Vancouver, and the Upper Walbran Valley, Avatar Grove, Mossy Maple Grove (Fangorn Forest), and Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island. Find out how YOU can help to ensure the protection of our ancient forests and a sustainable second-growth forest industry.
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Canada's Gnarliest Tree in Avatar Grove

It’s a land of giants in Port Renfrew’s ancient Avatar Grove

“Those candelabra tops are a sign of ancient red cedars,” explains T J Watt, cofounder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, a nonprofit organization that seeks to protect old-growth forests and ensure sustainable forestry jobs in B.C. “When I first saw those tops, I knew instantly we’d found a treasure trove of big trees.”

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Call to write letters

Please take a moment to assist with each area – if you commit just 30 minutes, you could help each area listed below right now: Avatar Grove, Cortes Island, the Great Bear Rainforest, Flores Island, McLaughlin Ridge, and Mossy Maple Grove.

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AFA supports Avatar Grove’s protection, calls for provincial old-growth plan

Today's announcement by the BC government to legally prohibit logging of the Avatar Grove by including it in 59.4 hectares of Old-Growth Management Areas was met with happiness by the Ancient Forest Alliance, the BC environmental group that found and popularized the monumental stand of valley-bottom ancient redcedars and Douglas fir near Port Renfrew two years ago.
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Canada’s Mossiest Rainforest aka Fangorn Forest

This is the unprotected "Mossy Maple Grove", Canada's mossiest rainforest, a stand 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 just south of Cowichan Lake on southern Vancouver Island, BC.

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Canada’s Mossiest Rainforest

This video, created by BC's Ancient Forest Alliance, showcases the mossy beauty of Mossy Maple Grove, a forest near Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island.

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Shaw TV: The campaign for Fangorn Forest or the Mossy Maple Rainforest

Conservationists identify and seek to protect Canada's mossiest maple rain forest on Vancouver Island.

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Local band Quioa new album Wildside to support ancient trees

Local band Quoia is about to release an album titled Wildside with 10% of the proceeds to be donated to Ancient Forest Alliance.
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Canada's Gnarliest Tree in Avatar Grove

Port Renfrew: Gateway to the West Coast Trail

After settling into our cabin, we meet up with our hiking guide TJ Watt, the passionate founder of Ancient Forest Alliance. We head out on a rough, windy road to Avatar Grove, home to 'Canada's Gnarliest Tree'. What a treat to stand beside a 150-foot tall cedar tree that dwarfs anyone and everything around it.
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Shaw TV: Avatar Grove & Eco-Tourism in Port Renfrew

The Shaw Daily television program heads out to visit the popular Avatar Grove with the AFA and takes a look at how business owners in Port Renfrew are starting to embrace eco-tourism as a new economic driver.
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