Photo of massive tree being hauled down Vancouver Island highway sparks global outrage

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This image of a massive tree being hauled north from Nanaimo, B.C., on Vancouver Island was shared online this week and sparked an outcry from Japan to Denmark. (Lorna Beecroft)

B.C. officials have confirmed that a massive spruce log photographed as it was hauled down a highway this week was cut on north Vancouver Island in 2020, months before new rules were introduced to protect giant trees.

"Government brought in this regulation to protect exceptionally large trees of all species throughout the province, and today, a tree of this size might well be illegal to harvest under the regulation, and fines of up to $100,000 could be imposed if it was," the email says.....

https://vnexplorer.net/photo-of-mas...arks-global-outrage-a2021180362.html?e=180362
 

That's terrible. A photo like that makes me sick.
When we first moved into our new home there was some logging going on across the road on the mountain in front of out house.
They were doing it very early in the morning. I called the police and they said it was illegal to log in that area.
The next morning they were there waiting and caught them.
I was surprised that they followed through on that but happy they did.
 
From there it went to Vancouver into a log store then the gentleman that bought it had it sent back to the island. I think he makes guitars with it. This was discussed on the radio the other day, a gentleman was saying that where the trees have been logged new growth is happening and wildlife is in abundance, this is on Vancouver Island. I do not know enough about this subject to comment one way or the other.
 
Related to the Special Tree Protection Regulation came into effect on September 11, 2020, phooey!

The foot-dragging, the avoidance and stalling measures by our governing parties attached to the September 11, 2020 date have been in keeping with what the general public have grown to know and expect.

In February of this year B.C.’s forestry practices came under renewed scrutiny when the Wilderness Committee discovered the new NDP majority government had sanctioned logging and road building in 157,000 hectares of second-growth forests in the deferral areas it claimed it had “protected.”

Wilderness Committee national campaign director Torrance Coste called the government’s suggestion that it had protected 353,000 hectares of old-growth “factually incorrect and incredibly misleading”, and the Canadian people (and the world) should believe it!

This video accurately (and honestly) walks you through exactly what is going on, and how much of our countries Old Growth Forests have been decimated in the name of greed!

 
A reflection of images to jar ones thought processes as to what sort of ancient beauty is being destroyed.

Welcome to the world of mankind's stupidity and greed on a sickening scale!

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Aunt Marg said:
Related to the Special Tree Protection Regulation came into effect on September 11, 2020, phooey!

The foot-dragging, the avoidance and stalling measures by our governing parties attached to the September 11, 2020 date have been in keeping with what the general public have grown to know and expect.

In February of this year B.C.’s forestry practices came under renewed scrutiny when the Wilderness Committee discovered the new NDP majority government had sanctioned logging and road building in 157,000 hectares of second-growth forests in the deferral areas it claimed it had “protected.”

Wilderness Committee national campaign director Torrance Coste called the government’s suggestion that it had protected 353,000 hectares of old-growth “factually incorrect and incredibly misleading”, and the Canadian people (and the world) should believe it!

This video accurately (and honestly) walks you through exactly what is going on, and how much of our countries Old Growth Forests have been decimated in the name of greed!

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The stump of that magnificent tree in that video is shocking, it's a terrible crime IMO
 
I never noticed the trees too much back then but on the north end of Vancouver Island
one family I knew raised beaver, mink and a number of fur bearing animals whose furs
were sold in the US and Europe. They ran trap lines, one a fourteen miler the other, a
a twenty-eight mile route. The were hauling logs back then but I saw none close
to the size shown shown in the photo. That was way back when, 1952.
 

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