Delegating to the Islands Trust: The 30×30 challenge
Forest Conservation Program Director Shauna Doll made a delegation to Islands Trust Council urging them to incorporate biodiversity protection.
Local engagement: letters to elected representatives can help make change
Raincoast scientists have been engaging in work related to conservation action on the Gulf Islands for many years.
The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: Restoring symbiotic relations with the ‘true community to which we all belong.’
In our ninth instalment of The Story of Coastal Douglas-fir interview series, we interviewed David Rapport, one of the originators of the concept and field of ecosystem health.
Big trees, big stumps and broken promises
For the last two years, I’ve been documenting clearcut logging on Salt Spring Island, and with Raincoasts’s Gulf Islands Forest Project, on Pender Island too. On a small island such as Pender, these relatively small clearcut patches can have a disproportionate impact on the landscape. I wanted to go to the Fairy Creek Blockade to see this intact watershed and support the Indigenous people and land defenders who’ve been protecting this place.
New research identifies ancient culturally-modified trees, and with them the future of forest management
After practising sustainable forest management for millennia, the Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nation has looked to its ancient cedar trees to help guide the future of its forests stewardship.