Vancouver Island Big Trees

  "Every tree has its enemy, few have an advocate. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies." - JRR Tolk...

The discussion following record-breaking rains and floods in British Columbia include speculation about the effects of fires. We sho...

  Moon at Megome   from the series Twenty Views of Tokyo, 1919-1921 Nikkō Kaidō , 1930.

  A big tree is not just a big tree. It is an entire neighbourhood. The human equivalent would be a residential skyscraper.  Imagine if some...

  Every May the hummingbirds return to our area, and every May our feeder is out to greet them. Because of these busy, tiny birds, it is a j...

 

" The razing of an old-growth forest is not just the destruction of magnificent individual trees – it’s the collapse of an ancient repu...

An interesting comment was left here a few days ago. I am posting it to reach a wider audience because it sounds like an amazing opportunity...

"If you wanna see real change, you're gonna have to stand up for it." - Old growth protector at roadblock camp Old growth fore...

Big trees are miracles of nature, and should be protected and preserved as such. In the past we cut gigantic, century (or eons) old tree...