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Garry Oak Meadows Robert Bringhurst a Philosophical Stroll Dawn Paley Mexico’S Community Forest “Helping Families Find Homes” Environmental News from BC and the World The New Coffee Crisis • Muzzling Dissent with SLAPPS in theBC Forest Poets September-October 2013 Newstand Price $4.95 Special issue on Forests Rex Weyler State of the World’s Forests Wade Davis The Rainforest Miracle Maleea Acker Garry Oak Meadows Robert Bringhurst A Philosophical Stroll Dawn Paley Mexico’s Community Forest “Helping families find homes” www.powellriverhomes.com 4471 Joyce Avenue • Powell River • BC Watershed Sentinel staff model our new T-shirts. You can have one too for only $25 postage included! T-Shirts are all organic cotton in Natural or Dark Brown, and come in Small, Medium, Large or X-large. Only the Natural colour has the slogan “Be a Hip Wader.” They are pre-shrunk, but you should allow for a small amount of shrinkage. Watershed Sentinel T-Shirts WaterShed Sentinel September-OctOber 2013 Watershed Sentinel Forests 12 In the Fold of the Forest Guest editor Rex Weyler presents a feature section which celebrates the gifts of the forests, examines our human relationship with the forests, and the current status of the conflict between forest defenders and the profiteers. 13 The State of the World’s Forests Rex Weyler looks at the ecological fallout of failing forest management 18 The Rainforest Miracle Wade Davis celebrates the rainforest 21,29 The Breath of the World Poets Joanne Arnott, Susan McCaslin, and Trevor Carolan 22 Remembering Clayoquot Charles Lillard’s 1993 speech 24 Wild Forests Ray Grigg’s thoughts on the wild as teacher 26 Stopping By with Robert Bringhurst 28 Canada’s Boreal Forest Tears Shane Moffatt on caribou and clearcuts by Jono 30 Mexico’s Forests Dawn Paley on community organizing Food against foreign mining and logging 32 Controlled Burns 8 Coffee Crisis Heidi Greco looks at the role of fire in There’s lots of trouble brewing in the coffee forest ecology plantations. Gavin Fridell lays it out for us 34 Gardens Aflame Maleea Acker shows us the Garry Oak Society meadows of BC’s south coast 10 SLAPP Lawsuit Land & Water Joyce Nelson explores the ins and outs of Resolute Forest Products’ $7 million defamation 6 Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary lawsuit against Greenpeace Many voices, including First Nations, are joining the chorus for more protection News & Other 3,5,7 News Briefs 4 Letters Cover Photo: Plitvice Lakes forest in Croatia 37 Wild Times Joe Foy on the Peace by Markus Mauthe Not a Subscriber Yet? Printed on Enviro 100, post consumer recycled, Look for the subscription form FSC®-Certified paper, with vegetable inks. inserted for your convenience 13 Sept-Oct 2013 Vol. 23, No. 4 September-OctOber 2013 GUEST EDITORIAL Watershed The Last Stand Rex Weyler I live in a forest, and know that I am fortunate. I watch flicker and siskin in Sentinel the cedars. I hear thrush and vireo in the veiled vastness. Cutthroat trout inhabit the lake, wolves howl on winter nights, and raccoons venture out with their Publisher Watershed Sentinel Educational Society families for my scraps. But I know the forest I live in is rare and under assault. Guest Editor Rex Weyler Those cedar and fir, hemlock and spruce, could be converted to money, the Editor Delores Broten great driver of this modern world. Managing Editor Susan MacVittie Yet, this is an ancient tale. We may recall that humanity’s earliest stories – Associate Editors Don Malcolm Ramayana, Gilgamesh, Raven and People – take place in the forest, with awe Miranda Holmes for its mysterious immensity. Raven hops from its forest home to find humans Graphic Design Ester Strijbos inside a clamshell on the beach. Rama enlists the forest animals to help van- Renewals Manager Dawn Christian quish the world’s evil. When king Gilgamesh falls a tree, the forest guardian Special thanks to Adrian Raeside, Karen Humbaba calls out, “Who is this that has violated my woods and cut down my Birch, Patricia Robison, Arthur Caldicott, cedar?” Gloria Jorg, Norberto Rodriguez de la Vega, Kathy Smail, Ray Woollam, the writ- And now? Those great Sumerian forests are a desert, the cedars long gone ers, advertisers, distributors, and all who for fires, ships, and fortresses. Only 20 per cent of Earth’s ancient forests re- send information, photos, and ideas. Deep main and the logging in those old-growth cathedrals continues relentlessly. thanks to our Board of Directors: Anicca The money-eaters may not notice until the forests are gone, until Raven has no de Trey, Alice Grange, Mike Morrell, Pam home, forest creatures have no refuge, and Humbaba has nothing left to defend. Munroe, Norberto Rodriguez de la Vega, Make no mistake: tree farms are not forests. Susan Yates, and Fay Weller. This issue of Watershed Sentinel is a call-out to citizens and forest defend- Published five times per year ers everywhere: We have reached the last stand. “We live at the edge of the Subscriptions Canada $25 one year, clearcut,” as Wade Davis reminds us. We either defend the last remnants of $40 two years; US $35 per year, Earth’s ancient forests, or we will lose them to the profiteers. The choice is ours. Electronic only $15 a year I am so honoured to work with the great and talented writers, poets, re- Distribution by subscription, and to searchers, and activists in this issue. A special thanks to the Greenpeace Inter- Friends of Cortes Island and Reach for national archive, and the photographers, for extraordinary images of the world’s Unbleached! Free at Vancouver Island and Vancouver area libraries, and by forests. sponsorship in BC colleges, universities, Rex Weyler, Cortes Island, BC, August 2013 and eco-organizations. Member Magazines Assn of BC and At the ’Shed Magazines Canada Database Alert! Over the summer, we transferred our mailing lists to a ISSN 1188-360X new database. There are always glitches in this process, so if you have a current Publication Mail Canada Post Agreement subscription and do not receive your next magazine by November 15th please get in touch with [email protected]. Also, our new system will cut expired subs promptly, so check your mailing label, or renew promptly when we send your notice. Electronic Renewals: Go green, save paper, time and money! Sign up for PM 40012720 electronic renewals. Please send a quick email to Susan (circ@watershedsenti- Return Undeliverable Canadian Addresses to: nel.ca). Watershed Sentinel Community Reporters Wanted: We are looking for people to report back Box 1270, Comox to us on meetings, rallys, events around BC. 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WaterShed Sentinel September-OctOber 2013 NEWS Around The World Compiled by Susan MacVittie Fracking Settlement Five Arkansas residents, who not make a difference to the total TEPCO had constructed a kind sued two oil companies claiming number and cost of relevant claims — of dam to stop the groundwater from wastewater disposal wells from frack- $9.6 billion at the end of June and ris- flowing through to the ocean, but the ing caused earthquakes that damaged ing. BP has been forced to sell a fifth water has undermined the dam and their homes, settled with the compa- of the company to fund a $42.4 billion is on its way either into the ocean or nies for an undisclosed sum. bill. the aquifer which the disaster site is Several similar suits against the BP slipped from second-placed perched above. No one knows. The two companies, Chesapeake Energy’s status among global oil companies to actual reactor buildings are still too operating subsidiary and BHP Bil- a distant fourth as the costs of the 2010 radioactive for inspection, even by ro- liton, remain active in federal court in oil spill shrank its earning power. bots, so no one actually knows where eastern Arkansas. — Reuters, August 26, 2013 the cores of the reactors are. The residents claimed earth- Fears are mounting that this con- quakes that hit central Arkansas in tamination is uncontainable, and will 2010 and 2011 were triggered by the impact the entire Pacific Ocean. Sev- injection of wastewater into deep eral First Nations agencies are testing wells, damaging their homes. Pacific salmon as they return. Howev- — Reuters, August 29, 2013 er, to put this terrible disaster, which will continue for at least forty years, Rootworms in GM Corn Fukushima Update into perspective, the anti nuclear test- Researchers in Illinois are finding In August 2013, TEPCO and the ing organization Ploughshares notes significant damage from rootworms Japanese government finally admit- that although the contamination is in farm fields planted in a rotation ted that the Fukushima nuclear disas- substantial, “the combined human with a genetically modified corn that ter site was leaking radioactive water and environmental damage caused by is supposed to protect the crop from into the ocean. The admission came the 3,000 plus nuclear tests conducted the pests, according to a new report after rising radioactivity was revealed over the past seventy years dwarfs that by Michael Gray, a professor of crop in Fukushima Bay, in fish, and after a of the Fukushima accident. 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