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B.C.'s clear-cut forests are 'dead zones,' emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels...

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From Darren Alexander of the Juan de Fuca Forest Watch

A timely reminder, of the cost of clear-cutting.

Timely, because here's what I know:

Teal Jones, with Pacheedaht contractors, are cutting big wide roads into and out of a mountain headwater of what is probably the most lush and significant tract of standing old-growth forest that remains, in our south island region.
They plan to clearcut the lot of it.
 
The work is underway. This is happening now, near Fairy Lake, just east of Port Renfrew. Not so far from Avatar Grove, probably one of the biggest tourist destinations on the island.
 
The BC government, as led by John Horgan, is sanctioning this destruction. Trees that are 500-800 years old are coming down now. And that's just to clear the roads.
 
 
Meanwhile they sit on their own Old-Growth Forest Management Review, refuse to reveal its findings. And meanwhile we KNOW what the costs are not just for us, but for our environment, and for a future with any hope of seeing those tall trees standing, right where they always have, for centuries.
 
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