A B.C.-based conservationist is raising concerns about new clearcuts of old-growth forest on the edge of one of the province’s most spectacular provincial parks.
“The northern tip of Vancouver Island is really one of the crown jewels of North America, it’s just a spectacular, rugged, remote, beautiful, beautiful area teeming with wildlife,” said Ian McAllister, co-founder of Pacific Wild McAllister discovered the clear cuts in March when he followed a newly-built logging road just outside the boundaries of Cape Scott Provincial Park. 2:30 Leaked map suggests B.C.
has approved less than half of proposed old-growth deferrals He said he was shocked to discover the scale of the logging, which he said faced directly onto the park and included rare and ancient trees. Story continues below advertisement “Right along a creek an entire mountain was just shaved — huge, huge clear cuts,” he said. The email you need for the day's top news stories from Canada and around the world.
“We realized these were monumental cedars. We lost track of how many of the stumps, over 1,000 years of age, and it was just hectare after hectare of massive, massive red and yellow cedar stumps.” The area in question is outside of the Cape Scott park boundaries and was legally logged.
The Ministry of Forests said the cut blocks were developed and sold by BC Timber Sales, a government agency created to develop Crown timber for auction, with the “full support of the local First Nations.” “.
