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My #PhotoArt tribute to #BigLonelyDoug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world.

Learn more about this lonely #OldGrowth tree:
"It has the third highest tree score and third widest diameter of any known Douglas-fir in Canada, following the Red Creek Fir in the nearby San Juan Valley and the Bonin Giant in the Coquitlam River watershed in British Columbia's Lower Mainland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Dididaht #TreeLovers #fir #EarthNeedsGuardians #nature #CarbonSink #Climate #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CapitalismKillsEverything #Environmentalist #PhotoEdit #VisualArt #ThickTrunkTuesday

Low-angle view of a tall tree against a grey sky, with colorful watercolor-like edit accents. The tree trunk is textured and light-colored, while the foliage is dark and dense. The photo image has a painted feel.

Band-aid solutions are not going to fix the #flooding problems in the #Chemainus River #watershed - Chief James Thomas from the #Halalt #FirstNation told #NorthCowichan council last month. He said the watershed and its #salmon are in #jeopardy mainly due to #logging practices that were conducted upstream in the watershed over the past 50 years.

#StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BCForestryReform #environmental #ClimateAction #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Cowichan #CoastSalish #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW

#ThrowbackThursday 2021.
This converted old school bus was my home for a week. While doing roadside volunteer legal support at #SaveOldGrowth #FairyCreek #blockade.

#AbolishRCMPCIRG #DefundRCMP #PortRenfrew #Cowichan #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #EcoJustice #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #Resistance #CivilResistance #FightForJustice #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #RespectOldGrowth #ClimateAction #CitizensUprising #CitizensRevolt #AntiCapitalist #AntiFascist #CamperBus #camper

A yellow and black Ford van, labeled "La Luna Azul," is parked on a gravel road in front of a forest, a large log lays across the road, behind a dugout ditch. RCMP CIRG & logging industry security vehicles are parked in the far background.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#OldGrowth #roots are sacred connections to #MotherEarth 💚

#Trees #TreeTrunks #rooted #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #TreesOfFediverse #Nature #ecological #environmental #ecosystems #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW

Close-up of the textured bark and exposed roots of an old-growth tree, with a tangle of thick roots wrapping around the trunk, and a dark opening visible within the trunk.

#Nanaimo happening now. They've marched over to 750 Jackson Rd to #protest in front of #TealJonesForest office.

#StopRawLogExports #StopEcocide #StopDeforestation #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #CDNpoli #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #SaveWhatsLeft #Timber

Poster advocating for forest conservation, featuring the text "FRIDAY FOR FOREST", "STOP RAW LOG EXPORTS", "MEET 7 AM", "near DUKE POINT, NANIMO (655 Jackson Road)" superimposed on a grayscale image of cut tree logs, with a mountainous background.

2025 marks my 33rd year with trying to get #BCForestryReform in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

The former BC Liberals were big on profiting from #deforestation. We had some hope when #BCNDP took over #BCgovernment but that was quickly dashed. The now dead John Horgan led BC into fresh new neoliberal, ecocidal hellholes. Our current BC Premier Eby was groomed by that former colonial capitalist jerkwad. Both neoliberals & fascist adjacent, white-is-right turdbuckets. More forests were clear-cut under #BCNDP power than under the former BC Liberal asshats.

Don't buy into government greenwashing & whitewashing lies when it comes to old growth forests. Denounce forestry industry funded lobbyists BS too. We need to #BanCorporateLobbyists & to #StopCorporateWelfare to fight more government corruption.

#FlashbackFriday
2021. Chained up in front of BC Ministry of Environment for 4 hours to demand a stop to old growth logging, for Old Growth Strategic Review recommendations to be fully implemented & for massive BC forestry reforms.

#ClimateAction #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation

A person wearing a purple hat and a face mask holds an orange sign that reads, "LESS THAN 3%" against the backdrop of a building. Above them, a large cutout of a man in a suit holds a sign that reads, "WE ONLY ENFORCE HATE CRIMES AGAINST COLONIZERS!". A sign in the background states, "Our One Demand George Heyman as Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy stand up and demand that Premier John Horgan protect all of the very very last of BC's ancient forests OR RESIGN." The person is wearing a black floral print shirt. There are also two other signs in the background with text that can not be read in the image.

#BritishColumbia province-wide #protest demanding a halt to #oldgrowth #logging next Tuesday, November 18th.
Please boost for wider reach 🌲💚🌲✌️

Please check the website for more details on different locations for these #MassMobilization protests - all across BC.
https://savewhatsleft.ca/protest

#WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #SaveOldGrowth #SaveWhatsLeft #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BCpoli #CDNpoli #ForeverForests #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #biodiversity #nature #AncientForests #OldGrowthRainforest #ClimateAction #OneEarth #NoPlanetB #SacredForests #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CrimesAgainstHumanity #neoliberalism #Decolonization #TreesOverGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #AbolishRCMPCIRG

Twig antler headband to coexist better with the trees & wildlife, when out exploring magic within forests. I love ancient, mossy, old growth forests 💚🌲❤️🌲💚

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #TreesOverGreed #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #BelieveInBiodiversity #NatureGuardian #WaterProtector #ForestDefender #ClimateActionNow #EcoJustice #OneEarth #MayTheForestBeWithYou #AsianMastodon #selfie #NatureProtector

A black and white selfie of a woman wearing a black beanie with faux deer antlers and the text "Save Old Growth" above an image of three pine trees, and "#WorthMoreStanding" below. The woman has a long braid and is wearing a black jacket and a white jacket. A house and foliage are in the background.

#Subsidizing #Clearcuts.
Communities and forest workers need a new social contract, not a corporate bailout.

https://watershedsentinel.ca/article/subsidizing-clearcuts/

In June, USW Local 1-1937 went on strike in Tree Farm License 64 because the company insists on hiring non-union contractors to do union work. The new TFL is held by Western Forest Products and La-Kwa sa muqw, a partnership of four Vancouver Island First Nations: Tlowitsis, We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum, and K’omoks.

Forest industry losses will continue because the Canadian lumber industry is barely profitable. Almost all the old growth forests are gone. The easy-to-reach, low-elevation, high-value trees were taken years ago. What’s left is the “guts and feathers,” as Wilderness Committee campaign director Joe Foy says.

It costs politicians nothing to claim that this bailout will benefit workers. But the only thing they can guarantee is a new round of austerity: cutting wages and benefits and replacing union workers with non-union contractors – the same gambit that led to the Steelworkers’ strike.

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCForestryReform #BCForestryWorkers #WorkerUnions #Greenwashing #Scabs #Logging

#MonochromeMonday

"The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed." - Ernst Schumacher

#UrbanEx #ComoxValley #VancouverIsland #AbandonedPlaces #graffiti #economics #Degrowth #Industrialization #Antifa #AntiCapitalism #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #AbandonedMill #InTheForest #CreepyPlaces #InTheWoods #Abandoned #ruins #infrastructure #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #ExploreMore #photography #adventures #sepia #monochrome #AlmostHalloween

A sepia-toned, medium shot shows a dilapidated concrete structure overtaken by graffiti and framed by bare trees under an overcast sky. The building, clearly in ruins with gaping window openings, is covered in extensive graffiti art in various colors but mostly greyscale, obscuring much of its original facade. The surrounding landscape is dominated by leafless trees with their branches reaching upwards, contributing to the somber mood. A dirt path leads toward the building, which sits on a slight rise covered with fallen leaves and sparse vegetation. The overall scene conveys a sense of decay and forgotten history, emphasized by the muted color palette.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

No man is mightier than #MotherNature.

#VancouverIsland #nature #PacificNorthwest #wilderness #forest #VanIsle #Cascadia #Cedar #GetOutside #ecosystem #Ecology #Summer #ElderTrees #hiking #BigTrees #PNW #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #AncientForest #RespectNature #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #StopClearcuts #TreesOverGreed #MightyTree

A towering, ancient cedar tree with a weathered, textured bark dominates the frame. Sunlight filters through the upper branches, creating shadows on the trunk and the surrounding green undergrowth. The composition is from a low angle, emphasizing the tree's height against a backdrop of a partly blue sky.

In the fall of 1985, a small group of #Haida people stood on a muddy #logging road on #LyellIsland —and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful #resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, #sovereignty and #environmental #justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying #archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, #courage and quiet #humanity of that moment.

Directed by Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time), the film honours the #Elders , #activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the #HaidaNation — and for all of #Canada.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-stand/

#BCForestryReform #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BClogging #IndigenousLand #IndigenousRights #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #CDNpoli #FirstNations #IndigenousSovereignty #Landback #Documentary #CanadianFilm #NFB

I don't support any BS industrialized innovations that are only used to make more fast profits for sleazy, greasy ecociders who don't give a fuck about our ecosystems, wildlife, humans or future generations. When you don't work in sustainable ways, when your work involves constantly killing Mother Nature for paycheques - you're going to pay the consequence prices at some point. I hope it is the worst hell on Earth for the ecociders.

You're fucking complicit in killing the very ecosystems that sustain all life on this planet.

#WildFirst or you will all feel more wrath from disrespecting, abusing & exploiting Mother Nature. Nature doesn't give a fuck what your political allegiances are. Your grandkids will loathe your complicity, ecociders & sellout enablers.

#BCForestryReform #StopEcocide #StopDeforestation #ClimateCrisis #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #BanCorporateLobbyists #EndFossilFuels #AbolishRCMPCIRG #AbolishBillionaires #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #CDNpoli #EarthFirst #ProtectTheWild #ProtectWhistleblowers #ExposeEcociders #PriceOfPoliticians #DoYourJob #CitizensUprising #StopTheGreenwash #StopTheWhitewash #ClimateActionNOW #NaturesEnemies #GreedyBastards #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability

*2 DAYS LEFT*
From The Discourse, Cowichan area based independent media. Please take the #survey if you care about access to #wilderness areas. Mosaic is one of the worst ecocide corporations in BC & they're responsible for much #deforestation on #VanIsle & surrounding islands.

Mosaic published a survey earlier this month to gather public input on responsible recreation. The company says it will use the survey results to guide the company’s “commitment to responsible #ForestStewardship — balancing public recreation with #environmental protection.”

If you’d like to let Mosaic know what you think about opening up the gates to the private land it manages, the survey is open until May 23.

https://www.mosaicforests.com/news-views/mosaic-seeks-public-input-on-responsible-recreation

The Discourse published an article by reporter Rowan Flood covering the ongoing battle between outdoor recreation groups and Mosaic Forest Management. Mosaic manages huge swaths of land on #VancouverIsland and tightly controls access to what one outdoor enthusiast called the most impressive and “jaw-dropping” parts of the Island. I was completely floored to learn that nearly 600,000 hectares of #unceded land on the Island is privately owned and is managed by a single company.

https://thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/vancouver-island-outdoor-enthusiasts-want-authorities-to-open-the-gates

#BCForestryReform #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #PublicAccess #CDNpoli #PublicInput #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #ProtectForests #PacificNorthwest #PNW #PublicTransparency

Hard to show the scale of this old growth beauty from this shot. It takes about 4 humans, holding hands, to hug the whole trunk of this ancient yellow cedar tree.

Click on photo to see full frame.

#Cedar #Trees #Tlaoquiaht #Indigenous #TribalPark #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClayoquotSound #ElderTrees #BigTreesOfBC #rainforest #Tofino #MearesIsland #SilentSunday

A medium shot captures a large, old-growth cedar tree trunk from a low angle. The central composition highlights the tree's verticality and the pronounced, textured bark. Light filters through the surrounding forest canopy, casting highlights and shadows across the bark and foliage, emphasizing the depth and texture of the scene. The color palette is dominated by browns and greens, creating a natural and earthy tone. Framing is tight, focusing detail.

2020 on #MearesIsland. #ThickTrunkTuesday

A colossal #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is part of the #Tlaoquiaht #FirstNations #TribalPark.
I hiked the big trees trails there - magnificent!

#OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClayoquotSound #ElderTrees #BigTreesOfBC #NativeParks #IndigenousParks

Me, standing beside a colossal cedar tree in a sun-dappled, ancient, old growth forest. The woman, dressed in a purple tank top, white pants & brown boots, leans against the tree with a walking cane. The tree's massive trunk dominates the scene, its textured bark showing its age. In the foreground, on the ground near the tree's roots, is a sign that reads "Cedar Tree of Life." Green foliage surrounds the tree, adding to the lush, natural environment.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is older than the Great Wall of China & older than the Vatican.
All #ElderTrees - of this colossal & majestic scale, must be preserved & their ecosystems protected.

#OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW

Vertical, eye-level shot. A colossal cedar tree with rough, vertically ridged bark is centered, filling most of the frame. The tree is surrounded by green trees, partially out of focus, creating depth of field. Sunlight filters through the leaves. The tree texture contrast strongly against with the leafy foliage.

#MosstodonMonday

Young #cedar #tree is all dressed in magnificent #mosses & #lichen 💚
One of the lovely sights you can see & admire, while exploring the coastal temperate rainforests in BC.

#Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #nature #wilderness #forest #green #rainforest #ecological #biodiversity #ecosystems #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #ProtectTheWild #NatureFirst #StopDeforestation #TreesAreEarthsLungs #mosstodon

A dense, verdant forest scene featuring a prominent cedar tree trunk with branches heavily draped in long, hanging moss. The moss creates a sense of depth and an enchanted atmosphere. The scene is dominated by shades of green and brown, with filtered light creating soft shadows

#FootpathFriday through the #forest 🌲🌲🌲
Rugged hiking trail, winding through luscious coastal temperate rainforest.

#StopDeforestation #Nature #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #NatureConservation #ProtectForests #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #Cowichan #VanIsle #TreesOverGreed #trees #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #SaveOurForests #biodiversity #ecological #ecosystems #environmental #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #StopEcocide #BCNewDeathParty #StopKillingForests #WalkInTheWoods #DayHikes #DisabledHiker

Medium shot of a forest interior. Dominated by green & brown hues, the image features a central pathway framed by tall trees & dense ferns. Light from above illuminates a small section of the path & ferns in the foreground, creating contrast & depth. The composition leads the eye along the path into the shadowy depths of the forest.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.

The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #SaveOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #StopDeforestation #AncientTrees #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #NatureFirst #ProtectTheWild #ForestsForever #TreesOverGreed #StopEcocide #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Environmentalist #OneEarth #BCNDP #Cowichan #ProtectOldGrowth #Degrowth #BigTreesOfBC #CoastalTemperateRainforests #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #TreeLovers #Arbor #Trees #TreeHugger

#BCForestryReform

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