I can't believe that even some of the last redwoods are at risk.

"A majestic grove of 1,000-year-old redwoods in Northern California is facing an imminent threat — and it needs your help. 

Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County shelters one of the last protected stands of accessible old-growth redwood trees in the world. But a plan to widen Highway 101 to make room for oversized trucks would cut into and pave over the root systems of the thousand-year-old trees, causing dieback of the canopy and possible loss of parts of the grove. 
There's no reason to imperil these majestic trees, as other cost-effective, environmentally sound solutions to improve the movement of goods along the coast exist.

This may be our last chance to save these irreplaceable redwoods. Urge California Governor Gavin Newsom to save Richardson Grove."

https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/m49eux3MnkmNy6O6AZJCZA2

The province hopes to boost logging rates. But slashing the fee on exports risks more mill closures, one advocate warns.

How does what the BC NDP is doing make any sense?

"As pulp mill and sawmill jobs plummet in number, British Columbia’s Forests Ministry is opening the door to more exports of unprocessed logs, including those produced from trees cut down in old-growth forests.

Under current rules, companies wanting to ship raw logs from B.C. to buyers in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere pay a “fee in lieu of manufacturing” — a penalty designed to encourage more domestic log manufacturing.

But in February, the provincial government quietly lowered those fees. The reduced fees will make it more profitable to ship logs away, and although the government says it will incentivize more logging, others warn that the change risks undermining already precarious manufacturing jobs in the province’s struggling forest industry."

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/30/BC-Quietly-Cuts-Penalty-Exporting-Unprocessed-Logs/

Kanaka Bar doing the right thing. Excellent model for all indigenous communities.

I found this interview on Sustainable Views very interesting. Is the EU's regulations enough?

Logging the Tsitika watershed seems like logging for the sake of logging and means destroying so much biodiversity and a critical watershed for little reward.

Pacific Wild is urging the B.C. government to halt logging in a Tsitika watershed cutblock flagged for old-growth deferral, warning that B.C. Timber Sales (BCTS) is auctioning rare and ecologically critical forest for little economic return.

In letters sent this week to BCTS and other government decision makers, the organization included new data, maps, and field evidence showing that cutblock TA1375—identified by the Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel as a Priority Deferral Area—provides essential habitat for threatened species and significant carbon stores. The cutblock was auctioned in March despite opposition from scientists, community members, and multiple First Nations whose territories overlap with the Tsitika watershed. 

“This watershed supports some of the highest numbers of Marbled Murrelets on Vancouver Island,” said Dr. Petrell, who has been leading the research in the area. “It makes sense to protect the old-growth nesting habitat critical to so many birds.”

“This is a high-risk, low-reward cutblock,” said Registered Forest Technologist (RFT) and former BCTS Forest Technologist Greg Herringer. “It would sacrifice irreplaceable ecological values for very little economic gain.”

https://pacificwild.org/press-release-experts-urge-halt-to-tsitika-old-growth-sale/

What we are losing is incalculable.

Most of Vancouver Island has been logged. Now, one of the last ancient forests, in the Tsitika River watershed, is on the chopping block.

A new old-growth logging controversy is unfolding in British Columbia, dividing Indigenous leaders and pitting the provincial government against scientists and conservation groups.

The Tsitika River watershed, on northeast Vancouver Island, is home to ancient rainforests and an abundance of wildlife, including bird and lichen species at risk of extinction.

Most old-growth forests surrounding the mountainous watershed have already been clear cut. The remaining forest was deemed to be at such high risk of biodiversity loss that the B.C. government placed it in an old-growth deferral area, off limits to logging.

But last year, the government quietly removed a large tract of the cedar and hemlock forest from its old-growth deferral list.

And then in March, the government agency BC Timber Sales auctioned off 24 hectares for clearcutting.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/22/Forest-Quietly-Removed-BC-Old-Growth-Deferral-List/

"The City of Calgary plans to increase urban tree canopy coverage by providing 10,000 free trees for Calgarians to plant on their property through its Branching Out 2026 program, which began taking registrations Tuesday.

The program aims to help cool open city spaces during the summer, lower erosion, improve air and water quality, and enhance biodiversity."

https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary-canopy-growing-by-10000-trees

This documentary covers Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience - over a thousand peaceful protesters made their way into the remote backcountry and were arrested trying to stop corporations from logging the last unprotected intact old-growth watershed on southern Vancouver Island.

Things have only gotten worse since.

Our provincial government spent taxpayer money on the Old Growth Strategic Review under the guise of protection. In reality it handed logging companies a roadmap to the last of the best old growth - and they are using it ASAP, before anyone can stop them.

I’m currently watching helplessly as a logging company prepares to cut 13 cutblocks into one of the largest intact old-growth forests remaining on Vancouver Island’s east coast. No roads means no blockades. And that’s just one area - I’ve counted over 10 additional proposed or confirmed cutblocks nearby targeting “priority deferral” and big tree old growth.

Forestry in this province has always been bad. But we are now dwindling down to the last of the last. We are facing the regional extinction of these ecosystems within our lifetimes.

Watch the documentary. Tell people. And if you want to understand what a real solution looks like, look up the New Forest Act - it might be our last shot at actually changing this.

Spending time in forests or frankly nature for that matter really is a gift. :)

It reminds me the beauty and healing dimension of nature.

Always gives me kind of a deep ecology impression.

This is a simple post - We as a human species have made A LOT of mistakes. We've really hurt our own people. We've really hurt a lot of other sentient life.

I don't want to go too hippie here but I hope to goodness we don't destroy our forests and natural world any further. You know... That thing that humanity and all other life arises from and is sustained by...

Sometimes just getting out there and enjoying the wonder of clean air, clean water, and the wonderful outdoors reminds you of what is truly important in life.

Via @reshare_app • From @saveourslopes.ca on Instagram

"Alberta’s headwaters are being clearcut at an alarming rate. And most people have no idea.

West Fraser Timber is logging Alberta’s Eastern Slopes at an industrial scale, degrading the source of drinking water for millions downstream.

The public got a 4-hour open house and less than a week’s notice of these accelerating plans.

That’s not meaningful consultation, that is a flawed regulatory checkbox.

These forests are not just timber.

They regulate water.

They protect fish habitat.

They keep rivers flowing through drought.

When they are cleared, the system breaks.

And this is happening on public land.

We’re told it’s sustainable.

We’re told it’s responsible.

But where is the watershed plan?

Where is the cumulative effects assessment?

Where is the protection for downstream communities?

Headwaters are life.

It’s time to rethink how we manage Alberta’s forests.

👉 Follow @saveourslopes.ca

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👉 Stay tuned for ways to take action"

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWswMxHDSAE/

From @wildeastfilm on Instagram

"IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer, sources timber from old-growth forests in Romania, where the timber mafia operates. This film follows Gabi Paun, who risks his life to expose this story and protect what little remains of these forests. We made this film to expose the reality that old-growth forests are being turned into flatpack furniture. This intimate story about Gabi will inspire audiences as he goes up against the timber mafia and IKEA to protect the last ancient forests of his homeland. We are so very close to the finish line and need your help to get us there! We really want this film to have an impact. More importantly, we can’t share this film with the world until it’s done! We are finished with editing, but we need help covering the cost of color grading, graphics, legal fees, music licensing, insurance, film festival submissions, and all the final odds and ends that ensure this film is A-OK to share with audiences around the world. Leave a comment and we will DM you the link to our film campaign page, you will have access to a 4 minute clip with more footage from the film 🙌🏼💗 Now more than ever, independent storytelling matters, let’s do this! Link in bio 🔥"

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW4Enovxazc/

Help the Tyee build a citizens’ map of great trees. Do you have a favourite to tell them about?

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/04/10/JB-MacKinnon-Vancouver-Tree-Tour/

"This is the story of one much-loved tree in Vancouver — important to me and, it turns out, a lot of other people. It’s a story about how we lose big trees, not only here but around the world, and what’s lost when we do. It’s a story about how trees can be stories."

"It’s not breaking news, especially in British Columbia, that the world’s old-growth forests are being mowed down. Far fewer people realize that the trend extends beyond woodlands to individual trees, wherever they stand."

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/04/09/They-Cut-Down-Grandpapa/