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A backcountry explorer in a Gordon River Valley clearcut

Victoria Natural History Society article

Apr 26 2010/in Announcements

Victoria Natural History Society article by the Ancient Forest Alliance – May-June 2010 issue

View how the Clayaquot protests of 1993 changed the face of environmentalism: https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/clayoquot-protest-20-years-ago-transformed-face-of-environmentalism/

Upcoming AFA Events and Hikes!

Apr 23 2010/in Announcements

Sunday, April 25 – Nature/ Old-Growth Walk in Mount Douglas Park: Oak Bay-Gordon Heads’ Old Growth in its Own Backyard!!! Meet: 1pm in the lower parking lot (at the bottom of the drive up to the top lookout). Join Benna Keoghoe of the Ancient Forest Committee of Oak Bay-Gordon Head, popular CRD naturalists Darren and Claudia Copley, and members of the Ancient Forest Alliance to see the little-recognized and little-appreciated old growth ecosystem in the heart of urban Victoria (including its largest Douglas fir!). This will be a fairly easy walk, about 90 minutes at the most. It is of course recommended to wear suitable footwear and rain gear if necessary. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=635681862&ref=profile#!/event.php?eid=112498998782690&ref=mf. For more info contact Benna Keoghoe at afc.oakbay@gmail.com

Thursday, April 29 – Vancouver Island’s Biggest Trees and Biggest Stumps – Launch Presentation of the new Oak Bay – Gordon Head Ancient Forest Committee, coordinated by Benna Keoghoe, additional presentation on the Avatar Grove by TJ Watt, BC forest policy and campaign update by Ken Wu. 7:00-8:30 pm, UVic, Clearihue C110. By donation. Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=114312995255977&ref=mf. For more info contact Benna Keoghoe at afc.oakbay@gmail.com.

Saturday, May 1st – Lower Mainland Old-Growth Hike up Sumas Mountain (near Abbotsford at Whatcom Road Exit) – Join the SFU, UBC, and Point Grey Ancient Forest Committees and the Ancient Forest Alliance to see an amazing stand of old-growth forests, including a most massive Douglas fir! Meet at 10:30 am at JJ Bean (Commercial Drive and 6th in Vancouver). Hike will be led by Tara Sawatsky and is moderate and will be 1.5 hours or so round trip. Drivers needed – all those able to drive with extra seats please get in touch. Passengers should chip-in for gas. Contact Michelle Connolly at ancientforestcommittee@gmail.com or Hannah Carpendale at ancientforests@sfpirg.ca

Fundraising Update – Please support the Ancient Forest Alliance!

Apr 23 2010/in Announcements

Fundraising Update – Please support the Ancient Forest Alliance!

DONATE to the ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE online or by cheque at: https://donate.ancientforestalliance.org/

The Ancient Forest Alliance – BC’s newest major grassroots environmental group founded just 3 months ago – needs your support GREATLY.

We launched a fundraising campaign on March 22, with a goal of raising $20,000 by June 21.

So far, over 120 generous individuals have contributed over $7000. THANK YOU for your generous support!

Whether you can donate $10 or $1000, your support is great appreciated, and we’ll ensure that your support will go farther with us than with almost any other environmental group in the country.

We’re in the works right now in building the MOST EFFECTIVE campaign for ancient forests and to ban raw log exports this province has ever seen…underway are a whole lot of new activists, new allies, and new strategies not seen before that will ratchet-up this campaign to an unprecedented level to save what are undoubtedly the MOST BEAUTIFUL ecosystems in WORLD, BC’s spectacular old-growth forests with their thousand year old, moss-draped giants trees with trunks as wide as your living room, that tower as tall as downtown skyscrapers…that are being reduced into a sea of giant stumps right now.

This is not an easy campaign, to put it mildly…at risk are several million hectares of endangered ancient forests. Many millions more, most of the biggest and the best, have already been cut. To save what remains and to sustain forestry jobs at the same time through a sustainable second-growth industry under a stubborn government, will be an intensely difficult task…but we will succeed with your help.

DONATE to the ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE online or by cheque at: https://donate.ancientforestalliance.org/

Or if you’re in Victoria on Saturday, April 24, come see us at our Earth Day booth at Centennial Square between 1 to 4 pm.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support for our new organization!

Ken Wu – Campaign Director
TJ Watt- Forest Campaigner and Photographer
Katrina Andres – Operations Director
Brendan Harry – Grassroots Organizer and Communications Coordinator
Michelle Connolly – Vancouver Coordinator
Tara Sawatsky – Forest Campaigner