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Christy Clark Grove

Ancient Forest Alliance asks Victoria to protect grove

The Ancient Forest Alliance is appealing to the provincial government to protect endangered old-growth forests by dubbing a recently found grove of massive trees Christy Clark Grove.

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The Clark Giant

Eco-group hopes premier will protect eponymous grove

The grove, which the AFA found on unprotected Crown land near Port Renfrew, contains a Douglas fir with a circumference of 9.5 metres, making it the eighth-widest known Douglas fir in Canada.
 

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Ancient Forest Alliance photographer TJ Watt stands beside a giant old-growth Douglas-fir tree he located in the Gordon River Valley near Port Renfrew. The tree measures over 31ft in circumference

Media Release: Christy Clark Grove

In honour of Earth Day this Sunday, the Ancient Forest Alliance is naming a recently found grove of unprotected, near record-size old-growth trees on Vancouver Island the "Christy Clark Grove"; after BC's premier. The group hopes the new name will motivate Premier Clark to protect the grove and develop a plan to protect endangered old-growth forests across BC instead of supporting their continued destruction.
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Opposition mounts to government talks on opening forest reserves to loggers

The B.C. government is holding talks with the forest industry over ways to supply more timber to beetle-hit Interior sawmills, including the option of opening forest reserves that have until now been out of bounds to loggers.

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BC plan would open Interior’s protected woods for logging

Old-growth forests, wildlife corridors and other long-protected timber zones in the British Columbia Interior could be opened up to logging in order to keep mills operating, according to a cabinet document detailing a proposal under consideration by the provincial government.

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A Shocking Glimpse of BC’s New Forest Plan

For more than a quarter century, logging companies at the government's blessing have been on a tear through British Columbia's expansive interior forests.

Well the day of reckoning is now very close at hand and the government's response leaves a heck of a lot to be desired.

 

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Power Grab Eyed by Clark Gov’t to Set Logging Levels

A leaked provincial cabinet document indicates that the provincial government is contemplating "suspending" the powers of one of its most powerful public servants in order to expedite a controversial logging program that has raised alarm bells in the professional forestry community.

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Hike raises awareness of bluffs

Friends of Stillwater Bluffs hosted a group of 50 people and 10 dogs on a hike around Stillwater Bluffs on Sunday April 15. It was part of an awareness-raising campaign that this area needs to be protected before Island Timberlands follows through on its plans to log it.

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Celebrating Earth Day By the Sea and Supporting the Ancient Forest Alliance

SeaFlora, Wild Organic Seaweed Skincare, enters their 10th season of Wild Seaweed Tours starting this Sunday April 22nd from 9am to 11am at the Whiffin Spit Parking Lot with all proceeds donated to support the Ancient Forest Alliance.

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Creatively United for the Planet Supports the Ancient Forest Alliance

Happening this weekend to celebrate Earth Week!
When:  April 20-22, 2012
Where: 600 Richmond Ave at Richardson (St Matthias)
 

The festival will raise needed funds for progressive environmental-based charities, including the Ancient Forest Alliance, while heightening awareness and initiating action for positive change in an entertaining and engaging way.

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