Ancient Forest Alliance
Dec 30 2010
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Radio Show Raises Support and Awareness for BC’s Endangered Old-Growth Forests

Ryan Fletcher, host of the radio show Melodies in Mind (www.unconformed.com/melodies-in-mind) on CJSFJ 90.1 hosted a live radio show to support the work of the Ancient Forest Alliance.  The show featured the Zolas (https://www.myspace.com/thezolas), Wanda Roberts, Madman’s Gospel (https://www.myspace.com/madmansgospel), Peter Hiltner (https://peterhiltner.com), and Glenn Chatten (www.soaringeaglemusic.com). The Ancient Forest Alliance would like to extend a […]

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Flagging tape marked "Falling Boundary" in the lower Avatar Grove when the forest was initially surveyed for logging.
Dec 21 2010

Port Renfrew’s ‘Avatar Grove’ To Become Eco-Tourism Site

The Ancient Forest Alliance is planning monthly public hikes to the Grove which features 50 hectares of old growth trees, located in an area just discovered by the Alliance a year ago.

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Dec 4 2010

Slideshow to protect Island’s ancient forests

The Comox Valley Naturalists Society will be hosting a slideshow presentation 7-9 p.m. on Dec. 8 by Ken Wu and TJ Watt of the Ancient Forest Alliance to raise awareness of and support for the need to protect BCs endangered old growth forests. The presentation will be at the Florence Filberg Centre, 411 Anderton Ave., Courtenay. Admission is by donation.

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Nov 18 2010

SAVE OUR CLIMATE AND ANCIENT FORESTS!

See great speakers, have a drink, meet other supporters, and make a donation if you can! Elizabeth May, Ken Wu, TJ Watt, Adriane Carr, Jens Wieting, and other speakers... TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 2010 Ambrosia Centre, 638 Fisgard St., VICTORIA, BC 7:00-9:00pm

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Oct 27 2010

ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE CALLING FOR BAN ON EXPORT OF RAW LOGS TO CHINA

B.C.'s new Minister of Forests, Mines, and Lands, Pat Bell, leaves tomorrow for a trip to China to talk lumber. Not everyone though sees the potential business as good for our province. Co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, Ken Wu, sees problems ahead.

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Oct 21 2010

Canada’s Largest Spruce Tree – The San Juan Spruce!

Seen here is the San Juan Spruce tree. It is Canada's largest spruce tree and the second largest in the world! It grows on Vancouver Island alongside the San Juan River about 35 minutes from Port Renfrew, BC. The towering tree measures 38.3' in circumference, reaches 205' tall, and has an incredible wood volume of 333 telephone poles! Despite all of this the tree and surrounding forest has not been afforded any legislated protection from the BC Liberal government. We are calling on the province to protect the area of forest, both old-growth and second growth, from the San Juan Spruce to the nearby Red Creek fir.

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Arnold Bercov
Oct 13 2010

Common Ground: Newsbytes

On September 16, in a seemingly unlikely event, the Ancient Forest Alliance stood in solidarity with members of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada and the United Steelworkers union in Nanaimo as part of the ongoing fight to ban raw log exports in BC. AFA forest campaigner TJ Watt spoke alongside union officials Nanaimo MLA Leonard Krog and Nanaimo-North Cowichan MLA Doug Routley to the hundreds of workers in attendance, denouncing the export of raw logs and calling for the protection of BC’s threatened forestry jobs.

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Oct 13 2010

Ancient Forest Alliance seeks support

“Time is running out for our endangered old-growth forests and B.C.’s coastal forestry jobs,” said AFA campaign director Wu in a press release.

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Oct 4 2010

Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) Launches the “100,000 Strong for Ancient Forests and BC Forestry Jobs” Campaign

The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) launched a campaign today to get 100,000 British Columbians to sign a petition (see ancientforestalliance.org/ways-to-take-action-for-forests/petition/) calling on the BC government to protect the province’s endangered old-growth forests and forestry jobs. The “100,000 Strong for Ancient Forests and BC Forestry Jobs” public education and mobilization campaign will be the largest grassroots mobilization effort undertaken by BC’s ancient forest movement since the Clayoquot Sound campaign of the early 1990’s.

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San Juan Spruce tree and the Red Creek Fir - some of the Canada's largest trees found right nearby!
Oct 1 2010

Old-Growth Forest Slideshow Comes to Saltspring Island on Wednesday, October 6th

Co-founders of the newly formed Ancient Forest Alliance Ken Wu and TJ Watt will host an informative and inspiring slideshow featuring spectacular photographs of Canada's largest trees, including the Red Creek Fir, San Juan Spruce, Cheewhat Cedar, and the newly-discovered, threatened Avatar Grove. The presentation will include discussion of the stunning ecology and complex politics surrounding BC's old-growth forests and forestry jobs. It will be held at Central Hall on Fulford-Ganges Road from 7:00-8:30 pm on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010.

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