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Protected Areas on Vancouver Island Vol.31 No.5 Summer 2012 Published by the Wilderness Committee FREE REPORTDoubling VANCOUVER ISLAND’S PROTECTED AREAS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE A LEGACY Torrance Coste What does make Vancouver Island increase, so right now is the best chance Vancouver Island unique is the fact that many of our we’ll ever have. Campaigner, ancient landscapes still exist. Trees that We know that doubling Vancouver Wilderness Committee are over 25 storeys tall and well over a Island’s protected areas will require @TorranceCoste thousand years old still live on our Island, a broad effort and participation by though we sometimes take them for everyone. This educational report rowing up on Vancouver Island, granted. illustrates how important it is that we do GI’ve fallen in love with the parks I believe that we need to act now to it now—the places we cherish are at risk and protected areas that make our double the amount of protected area on every day. home famous. These places have helped Vancouver Island. This will put us near On Vancouver Island we have a rare shape my identity, and like many, I have 25 per cent of the Island protected. We opportunity to do something incredible. taken them for granted. For a time, I are far behind many other parts of the If we rise to the challenge, we will thought the whole Island was protected world like New Zealand, Costa Rica and do more than conserve world-class and that it would be forever. Tanzania, which have protected twice as wilderness areas. We will have protected Of course, this perception is false. The much of their wildlands as we have.1 an essential part of ourselves, our past, staggering majority of Vancouver Island We all know that pressure from heavy and our future. is not protected at all. With each passing resource industries and land developers generation more of our Island paradise will only has disappeared. On the southeast part of the Island, due to logging and urban expansion, the forests of the Coastal Douglas-fir ecosystem have all but been eliminated. In many parts of Vancouver Island, finding a river valley with its old-growth forest cover intact from mountains to sea is no longer possible. Every one of them Photo top: Big Tree Trail, Meares Island has logging roads and clearcut scars. Tribal Park, Clayoquot Sound (Mike Grandmaison), However, this isn’t what makes above: San Juan Spruce, Canada’s Vancouver Island unique. Many places largest Sitka spruce tree (Joe Foy), left: View from the Nootka Trail in the world have lost their original (Warrick Whitehead). landscapes to industrial development. PROPOSED PROTECTED AREAS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND 1 CLAYOQUOT SOUND: 5 NooTKA IslAND: EDGE NOT SAVED YET of THE PROVINCE AND Queen Charlotte ust saying the name Clayoquot Bulson River, Easter Lake, Pretty Girl THE IMAGINATION Port Strait JSound brings back vivid Creek, Satchie Creek, Upper Kennedy Hardy memories of environmental protest River and Hesquiaht Point Creek all face Port bsolutely spectacular—in terms who have lived here since time McNeill for many Canadians. That’s because an uncertain future. Wild places such Aof wildlife and pristine coastline, immemorial and whose culture is Port Alice Sayward protecting Clayoquot’s ancient forests as these with intact forests and huge, British Columbia Nootka is second to none. incredibly rich and diverse. Yuquot, the from logging sparked the biggest act thousand-year-old trees are rare on the 7 This is how veteran wilderness main village on Nootka Island, is where of Canadian civil disobedience in a Island and nonexistent today in many guide and environmental activist Captain James Cook landed in 1778— generation. It was broadcast coast to parts of the globe. Vancouver Warrick Whitehead describes the west marking the first known interaction Zeballos Campbell River coast and around the world on the The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, one of Tahsis side of Nootka Island, a remote and between Europeans and Indigenous evening news throughout the summer the First Nations of Clayoquot Sound, Island unprotected wilderness in Nootka people on this coast. Gold of 1993. have designated two parts of their River 4 Sound, on the central- The rugged Nootka Trail Courtenay “Absolutely So it comes as a surprise to many territory as Tribal Parks—Meares Island 5 west coast of Vancouver stretches 35 kilometres spectacular—in that today, a great deal of Clayoquot and the Kennedy Watershed. These Island. along the western edge terms of wildlife Sound’s unlogged valleys and islands Tribal Parks need to be enshrined in Here the Pacific of Nootka Island, and is an Qualicum Beach and pristine are still not protected from logging— provincial law, and our government Parksville Ocean crashes onto unbelievable West Coast Pacic 1 coastline, but it’s true. Since 1993, successive needs to work with the First Nations Port 6 Salish the shores of dense experience. The trail is Alberni Nanaimo Sea Nootka is second provincial governments have failed of Clayoquot Sound to designate Tono rainforest—the result is slowly being discovered 0 25 50 km to none.” to respond to the public desire to see more Tribal Parks to encompass all of Ocean Ladysmith an ecosystem home to by enthusiastic hikers, the intact valleys of Clayoquot fully Clayoquot’s remaining intact ancient Ucluelet wolves, bears, cougars, although guides like protected, so the forests there have forests. The government must also Duncan countless rare birds, marine mammals, Whitehead have long felt that it existed in a sort of uneasy truce as provide economic development funds and plant communities that thrive only surpasses southern Vancouver Island’s Clayoquot Sound & Mt Arrowsmith UN Biosphere Reserves 3 8 nearby forests have continued to be so the communities can participate Proposed Protected Areas 2 in healthy rainforests. Juan de Fuca Trail and even the world- Port Renfrew chainsawed down. more fully in the fishing and tourism First Nations Reserves The island is also steeped in history. renowned West Coast Trail in terms The ancient forests of Meares Island, economies of the region. Existing Parks & Protected Areas Sooke Victoria This is the traditional territory of the of unbridled scenic beauty, and First Flores Island, Vargas Island, Clayoquot For more information, contact Urban & Developed Areas Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations, Nations culture and history. River, Ursus River, Sydney River, our local allies: The Friends of Washington (USA) Clayoquot Sound focs.ca 2 PORT RENFREW: HOME of GIANT TREES ancouver Island is famous for towers above. Vits giant trees. But one Island Living a few kilometres away from town stands out amongst all others the Red Creek Fir is another giant— as being the big tree capital. It’s the the San Juan Spruce. This is Canada’s Photo left: Vancouver Island wolf (Mark Hobson), village of Port Renfrew and it gets largest Sitka spruce tree. It’s located right: Chicken of the woods mushroom (Mark Hobson). its big tree reputation because of right beside a road with a great 3 two trees—and what amazing trees riverside picnic site nearby. The San UPPER WALBRAN: they are! Juan Spruce is 62.5 metres in height 3 6 ANoosE OREST A NATURAL TREASURE The Red Creek Fir is the world’s and 11.6 metres in girth. N F : most massive Douglas-fir tree with a Making a pilgrimage out to Port Photos from left to right: East Creek old-growth DISAPPEARING HABITAT hen the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park was designated in the 1990s it height of 73.8 metres and a girth of Renfrew to see the giant trees forest (WC files), Salmonberry (Mark Hobson), Wencompassed some of the finest ancient temperate rainforests remaining 12.55 metres.2 That’s as tall as an office is a must-do Island experience! Walbran Valley Douglas-fir tree (WC files), Killer he Nanoose Forest, located government that within the Coastal whales (Jim Borrowman / All Canada Photos). on Earth. However, the park’s boundaries left some very important forests in the building and as wide as your living Surprisingly, neither of these natural Tnorthwest of Nanaimo, is an Douglas-fir forest the ecosystem Upper Walbran Valley unprotected, and conservationists have been trying to remedy room. record winners are in a provincial example of why Vancouver Island’s viability was unlikely to persist unless that ever since. Trails have been constructed in the Fletcher Falls area just outside The Red Creek Fir can be reached park. Much more needs to be done protected area system needs to be much more of it is protected from 7 EAST CREEK: CAN’T the park. These Upper Walbran trails meander through groves of giant redcedar and by hiking up a short trail through to protect the natural wonders of the greatly expanded as soon as possible. logging.4 Scientists later calculated that Sitka spruce trees that are a world class natural treasure. However, the Upper Walbran mostly second-growth forest and Port Renfrew area, starting with the WAIT ANY LONGER First identified as a rare Coastal Douglas- to move ecosystem viability from high continues to be defaced with new logging operations year after year. This amazing past a grove of old-growth redcedar forests surrounding these two giants. fir forest by nearby residents, this risk to moderate risk, the current five forest needs to be added to the park now. trees. Then before you the old giant n 2003 when the Wilderness until the end, it entered the ancient 64-hectare parcel of provincial public per cent (12,700 hectares) of protected ICommittee first journeyed to East rainforest. land completely surrounded by private Coastal Douglas-fir forest would Creek Valley on the northwest coast In the 1990s the Klaskish was listed lands soon became a famous forest.
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