Introducing the British Columbia Big Tree Project map
Raincoast’s Big Tree Project map will help connect BC-based community scientists with the big tree monitoring project nearest them.
Tree projects across BC are coming together to advance research objectives and protections
These local giants inspire connection to forests, and nature, and encourage people to reflect on their relationships with the land more broadly.
The story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests: An ecosystem on the edge
This interview with Dr. Rachel Holt, co-author of the stark report: Old growth: Last stand for biodiversity, contributes to the story of Coastal Douglas-fir forests through the lens of old growth protection. Dr. Holt also presents policy options to safeguard the forests that remain. What are the forest values of the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone…
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.