In 2017, I went to #BritishColumbia, #Canada for the first time. Still, I have more to explore there but, so far, one of my favourite spots on the mainland is #Squamish. I also greatly enjoyed the #douglasfirtrees at #CapilanoPark's #oldgrowth #forest. These photos were taken before I even believed that I'd one day own a Canon. #Nostalgia #Travelphotography #CellPhonePhotography #nature #beauty #trees
2020 on #MearesIsland. #ThickTrunkTuesday
A colossal #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is part of the #Tlaoquiaht #FirstNations #TribalPark.
I hiked the big trees trails there - magnificent!
One of my favourite times of the year: when the trees start to turn green and everything is in bloom at the edge of the forest and in the Streuobst-Wiesen.
This #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is older than the Great Wall of China & older than the Vatican.
All #ElderTrees - of this colossal & majestic scale, must be preserved & their ecosystems protected.
Scientists, conservation groups slam government over protection of #oldgrowth #forests in #finland
#eu #biodiversity #ForestProtection
https://yle.fi/a/74-20150836
A beautiful moss covered Western red #cedar #tree - still unprotected.
Only a human, with a compromised & unwell soul, would be OK killing an elder tree this magnificent. Some things are just plain wrong.
These ancient old growth trees are essential to fighting accelerated #ClimateChange. #OldGrowth ecosystems in our coastal temperate rainforests supports much biodiverse lifeforms. The naturally moist environment helps to lower impacts of wildfires & other natural disasters that have increased as our governments continue to fund & enable more ecocidal projects.
This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.
The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.
#SelfPortrait with ancient elder yellow #cedar #tree. I have a longtime deep connection with #OldGrowth #forests & have spent decades of activism work to try to save & protect them from ecocidal monsters.
How we think about nature, how we treat wild living ecosystems, speaks volumes on our personal character. If we become too disconnected from wild nature, we will turn into demons who destroy our natural life forces.
"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success." ~ Dale Carnegie
I think of Dale Carnegie as one of my greatest teachers, his influence has deeply impacted my life by his example of sharing stories from many others experiences to learn from. Who inspires you? Where do you find hope, positive thoughts or growth?
Photo taken last spring of a very ancient tree enduring high alpine elements. On the South side of Mt Yoran looking at the North side of Diamond Peak in Oregon. If I were a tree, Id hope to have views like this one has!
Boo hiss! If I were Biden, I'd be passing all sort of stuff -- and freeing #LeonardPelltier!
#Biden administration withdraws #OldGrowth #forest plan after getting pushback from industry and GOP
https://apnews.com/article/biden-old-growth-forests-climate-change-e365debe64acf791f16de2ce75cb9342
#USPol #SaveTheForests #FreeLeonardPeltier #GrowABackboneJoe
Takayna’s forests
"Old-growth forests (forests unscathed by industrial-scale human development) are complex places. “They have structural components that are completely absent from a forest that could be 150 or 200 years old, so they’re essential for biodiversity,” says Prof Hugh Possingham, a conservation researcher and Queensland’s former chief scientist. Achieving such structural ecological complexity takes aeons">>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/01/masked-owls-wild-devils-and-giant-crayfish-inside-the-ancient-forests-of-tasmanias-takayna
Land use: Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area, destruction by all-terrain vehicles
https://discover.abc.net.au/index.html?siteTitle=news#/?query=Arthur%20and%20Pieman%20&refinementList%5Bsite.title%5D%5B0%5D=ABC%20News
#Rainforest #oldgrowth #Tasmania #Gondwana #conservation #biodiversity #ATV #destruction
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Gnarly #OldGrowth #GarryOak tree.
I see a wise face on this ancient, majestic garry oak 
Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-logging-blm-oregon-climate
We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.
#ThrowbackThursday
2021.
I still am unable to go back here physically because it would break my heart too much. I spent almost 9 months, on/off, in the forest - trying to save the old growth trees here. The trees you see on the mountain slopes here are all gone. They were clearcut since this photo was taken from a resistance camp, higher up in the valley. I have seen aerial photos of what this spot looked like in 2023 - so many damn #ecocidal clearcuts into #AncientForest groves. This backs into #Carmannah #Walbran Park - which was also under threat of logging for awhile. It had to be blockaded before protection was granted. Avatar Grove & a few other #OldGrowth areas on Southern #VancouverIsland were given protection because activists fought hard to gain it.
This is not progress.
This is not civilized.
We need to protect remaining #OldGrowth #AncientForests. They're our 2nd largest #CarbonSinks - after the giant kelp forests in the oceans. #Clearcutting forests should be banned.
