Cathedral Grove, with its majestic 800 year old ancient Douglas-fir trees, is the most famous old-growth forest in Canada. It lies within a small park, MacMillan Provincial Park, at the base of Mount Horne. Millions of people from around the world visit this incredible grove every year on their way to the West Coast of Vancouver Island and the town of Tofino. However, logging giant Island Timberlands is currently building a road in order to log a cutblock on the mountainside above Cathedral Grove. This will fragment the continuous forest cover on the slope above Cathedral Grove, including some of the last 1% of BC’s old-growth coastal Douglas-fir trees and a deer winter range; increase erosion and siltation into the park in the Cameron River; and ruin part of the Mount Horne Loop Trail that the cutblock overlaps. See PHOTOS and a MAP of the flagged logging cutblock at: ancientforestalliance.org/photos.php?gID=24 See a recent news release at: ancientforestalliance.org/news-item.php?ID=709
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 23:49:39 +0000
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