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Final week to visit AFA store for Holiday Gifts!

Dec 22 2011/in Announcements

This is the Final Week to come by the temporary Ancient Forest Alliance store in Victoria to purchase some of our new Holiday Gifts or make a donation in person this year to save our biggest trees!

See photo samples of our new products here: https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/store/

The Ancient Forest Alliance has new, eco-friendly greeting cards, big-tree posters, post cards, photo prints, stickers, and more at our shared office space located at 827 Broughton Street in Victoria (Click here for Google Map)

We are open everyday this week from 12:00 – 6:30 pm. We close Friday, Dec.23rd at 6:30pm! Come by during your lunch break or after work!

All our gifts feature TJ Watt’s stunning photographs of Canada’s biggest trees and classic coastal rainforest scenes. See the AFA’s AWESOME photo galleries here for a preview of his images: https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/photos-media/!

On the shelves are:

Greeting Cards – 5×7 ($3.95ea) – Choose your favorites from 12 colorful images featuring many of BC’s most amazing ancient forests! Buy 6 for $21 (ie. $3.50ea) or all 12 for $36 (ie. $3.00ea)
Posters – 29×20 ($15ea) – Get your hands on the first new old-growth posters to be printed in nearly a decade featuring 3 spectacular shots of the San Juan Spruce, Canada’s Gnarliest Tree, and the Cheewhat Giant! ***Note: Posters will be ready only after Wednesday, Dec.21st!
Post Cards – 4×6 ($10 per pack) – Packs of 10 beautiful postcards showcasing stunning Vancouver Island nature scenes including info about each location!
Photo prints – 11×14 ($45ea) – These 11×14 matted, fine art photo prints are simply gorgeous and ready to drop into a frame! A perfect gift for anyone!
Framed prints – 18×24 ($195ea) – There are still some phenomenal, professionally framed prints remaining from TJ’s recent photo show at Dales Gallery all ready to hang on the wall of someone special!
Stickers ($3) – Bumper stickers to help save our ancient forests!

All of our greeting cards, postcards, and posters are printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper using earth-friendly inks as well so you can breathe easy!

Be sure to ask us about discounts on volume purchases too!

Hope to see you soon,

Joan Varley, TJ Watt, Ken Wu

Ancient Forest Alliance.

Ancient Forest Alliance thanks the Mountain Equipment Co-op

Dec 21 2011/in Thank You

The Ancient Forest Alliance wants to thank the Mountain Equipment Co-op for their generous Advocacy and Education Grant from 2010-11 that has helped us round up 20,000 supporters through our petition-drive, hikes, slideshows, and rally to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests and forestry jobs. Their support greatly helped our new organization with key funds to further expand our reach to thousands of British Columbians directly and to millions of people around the world through the media.

Please visit their website at www.mec.ca and show your appreciation for their support of wilderness protection campaigns at your local store!

The horsehair lichen – which Hansen says resembles Kock's beard – will be known as Bryoria kockiana.

Lichen legacy

Dec 21 2011/in News Coverage

The first time they met, Anne Hansen and Henry Kock both showed up for a canoe trip wearing mismatched canvas sneakers.

“We like to be different, in a fun, whimsical kind of way,” said Hansen, an artist based in James Bay, who wears two long braids and colourful knits. Their shared love of the outdoors also helped bring the couple together, more than two decades ago.

The pair lived in Ontario, where Kock earned a reputation as a horticulturalist at the University of Guelph. In 2005, he died of brain cancer.

Last week, Hansen found a fitting way to memorialize her late husband. For $4,000, she bought the scientific naming rights to a newly-discovered lichen.

The horsehair lichen – which Hansen says resembles Kock’s beard – will be known as Bryoria kockiana.

“He would be thrilled,” said Hansen, of how Kock would feel about his lichen legacy.

After more than a decade of exposure to pesticides during his young working life, Kock dedicated himself to organic gardening. Hansen believes his cancer was a result of these pesticides, many of which are now banned.

Lichenologist Trevor Goward recently discovered the species of lichen in the southern Interior. In fact, he discovered two new species and he donated one to the Ancient Forest Alliance and one to The Land Conservancy to be put toward a Name-that-Lichen auction, which closed Dec. 15.

The naming auctions are the first example of “taxonomic tithing,” meaning they raise money for their own conservation, according to Goward.

“I believe that future auctions of this kind will garner even more support as Canadians awaken to the honour of being linked, if only in name, to other living species that share this planet with us,” he said, in a release.

The Sulyma family purchased naming rights from The Land Conservancy for $17,900. Parmelia sulymae has been named in honour of Randy Sulyma, a biologist at the University of British Columbia who died tragically in January. The money will got toward a $350,000 campaign to purchase a land corridor between two pieces of Wells Grey Park in the southern Interior of B.C.

The Ancient Forest Alliance will use the money from Hansen’s winning bid to map and report on old-growth forest on Vancouver Island.

Link to Victoria News article: https://www.bclocalnews.com/community/135945688.html