Chris AlemanyDec 13
Ancient Growth logging continues on southern Vancouver Island near Fairy Creek. This is a picture of people climbing an estimated* 600yr old cedar marked for removal this week. They had to sneak around police and logging company barriers to set up the tree sit. Last heard they are still there. Over two dozen arrested.
#fairycreek #walbran #camarnah #rcmp #bcpoli #bcndp #oldgrowth #endoldgrowthlogging
*estimated based on tree ring count of a “sister tree” cut recently nearby
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Oct 24, 2024
How would you like to see a 300 year-old tree? Oh sorry it's not standing. It's in a truck. The #BCElxn2024 is over. Time to start shipping out the old growth trees again. I am following this truck on the highway right now 😠 😠 🌳 🌳
edited to add: I didnt think of it at the time cuz it's my normal commute, but remember the 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremonies with the big trees in Cathedral Grove? Ya, I'm literally driving through that park here. #irony
#BCHWY4 #BCPOLI #Forestry #EndOldGrowthLogging
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 5, 2024

Saw a 'young’ #oldgrowth (80+ yrs?) or old second growth Douglas Fir on the drive today. This logging truck appears to be holding the entire tree. The bottom of the tree is the dark log on the top left. Resolution isn’t high enough to see the rings.

I admit I have a hard time with all of it these days. Mostly because I know none of the management is anywhere near sustainable or responsible from an ecosystem perspective.

#BCForestry #PortAlberni #BCHwy4 #EndOldGrowthLogging

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Aug 25, 2023

1/2 It makes me sad and mad every single time I see an old growth tree on a logging truck.

I say that in the singular because I am pretty sure this one truck is carrying one tree. It's that big. This is common.

#EndOldGrowthLogging #CanPoli #PortAlberni #ClimateCrisis #Forest #CanadianWildfires #wildfires

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jun 12, 2023
Super cool article about the rarest and dare I say most beloved marmot in the world. The Vancouver Island Marmot! So adorable and precious and thanks to some help from kind souls, slowly coming back from a human-induced brink of extinction. I would love to at least hear one one day. I’ll likely never see one. There are only a thousand left.
#Nature #VancouverIsland #Extinction #ClimateChange #EndOldGrowthLogging #BCPoli #Marmot
Hide and Seek - Canadian Geographic
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Hide and Seek — Canadian Geographic

IT’S NOT EASY TO SPOT a Vancouver Island marmot in the wild. For the past 30 years, I have spent my summers hiking and swimming in the mountainous paradise of Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island. Founded in 1911, British Columbia’s oldest park showcases over 250,000 hectares of slate-grey peaks and flower-filled valleys. It is ideal marmot country. I never saw one.