RALLY for ANCIENT FORESTS & BC JOBS Sat Oct 25 2008 Part II
July 27th, 2010 | 
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Video by Christian Tatonetti www.myspace.com freezinghand Channel Info taken from: Western Canada Wilderness Committee Satellite photos show that 75% of the original, productive old-growth forests on Vancouver Island have already been logged, including 90% of the valley bottoms where the largest trees grow. Unfortunately only 6% of the productive forests on Vancouver Island are protected in our parks system. See maps and stats at www.viforest.org (sign the online petition, too) Over 18000 of BC’s forestry workers have been laid off over the past year, in large part due to the BC Liberal government’s deregulation of the forest industry that has allowed logging companies to shut down their BC sawmills while retaining their cutting rights. In addition, the decline of the coastal forest industry at its root is being driven by the long-term depletion of the productive, readily accessible stands of old-growth forests that built the industry for over a century. They’ve logged off the biggest and best trees already. Instead of ensuring that the companies retool their sawmills to process second-growth trees that now cover most of the southern coast, the BC Liberal government has simply allowed companies to shutdown their old sawmills but meanwhile export the raw logs from the maturing second-growth forests that they are now unsustainably liquidating at breakneck speeds (along with logging the last of the old-growth, particularly redcedar). Old-growth forests are important for …
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I could not film past that as I only have one memory card. Someone else must have it filmed!
I Should buy another memory card!
Is there a part 3? I really loved the speeches.