With less than 10 percent of the original old growth forest remaining on Vancouver Island, we owe it to the cougar, the bear, the eagle, the countless other species, lichens and fungi, and species that we are not yet even aware of to preserve this important habitat and natural resource. Though logging companies licence the rights to remove these massive trees, each one an ecosystem in it's own right, they just see $$$ signs flashing in their eyes are are seemingly blind to all of the life these trees support. Those life forms have "owned" that forest for tens of thousands of years. Who are we arrogant humans to go in there and destroy it. It' takes another 10,000 years to get back into it's natural state, if it ever will. One problem is that the sub strata gets eroded, especially with clear cut logging. The remnants make perfect tinder also in increasingly dry conditions, encroaching on the rain forest year by year. Please help by support Friends of the Walbran and www.ancientforestalliance.org if you can.
