800-year-old cedar taken from B.C. park

[Locutus]

A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.

Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee said consistent budget cuts over the last decade mean park rangers rarely monitor remote sites such as the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park, from where the cedar was chopped.

"Whoever's doing this knows that no one's going to have eyes on this park for months at a time so it's exceptionally easy to do what they've done," Coste said Thursday.

He said that last month, a member of the environmental group became aware of the poached tree and took a photo of about 20 per cent of its remains.


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[B00Mer]

1. That is really, really sad..

2. Hope someone turn them in to the law..

People that do that kind'a **** have to have some sort'a mental issue, a chip on their shoulder about society as a whole. Losers with a capital L...

 

[taxslave]

Leaving all that valuable timber on the ground to rot is the true crime. In Germany they are smart enough to log their parks. Here we let money rot to appease a bunch of citiots while loggers are unemployed.

 

[petros]

The big trees make the best shakes.

 

[JLM]

1. That is really, really sad..

2. Hope someone turn them in to the law..

People that do that kind'a **** have to have some sort'a mental issue, a chip on their shoulder about society as a whole. Losers with a capital L...

Looking on the bright side, they are obviously not afraid of work. Now if they were drawing welfare to boot I'd be really pissed off.

 

[petros]

Too bad they weren't working at a pulp mill or sawmill but they've been greened out of employment and now have to cut illegal shakes to put food on the table.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Looking on the bright side, they are obviously not afraid of work. Now if they were drawing welfare to boot I'd be really pissed off.

Who knows their personal situations. They could be meth heads for all you know, hoping to unload some cedar lumber to finance their addictions.

 

[petros]

Who knows their personal situations. They could be meth heads for all you know, hoping to unload some cedar lumber to finance their addictions.

They are making shakes. It's nothing new and it's not meth heads.

 

[Cliffy]

Prolly loggers who are pissed that every single old growth tree isn't cut down yet.

 

[petros]

Coste, who measured rings on the stump, said the cedar, which is valuable for
roof shakes, was probably about 800 years old and measured 2.75 metres
across.

Unemployed native guys... This isn't new. They been cutting shakes for the past century but they've been greened out of the forest by hippies.

 

[Cliffy]

Hippies, rednecks, citiots, greenies, capitalist pigs, death agents... my the English language is becoming colourful, eh!

 

[JLM]

Who knows their personal situations. They could be meth heads for all you know, hoping to unload some cedar lumber to finance their addictions.

That is a possibility, on the other hand they could have a wife and six kids at home, waiting for Dad to "bring home the bacon". LOL

 

[Cliffy]

That is a possibility, on the other hand they could have a wife and six kids at home, waiting for Dad to "bring home the bacon". LOL

Are you that rational and supportive when a bear eats a human?

 

[JLM]

Are you that rational and supportive when a bear eats a human?

NO.....

 

[petros]

Critters gotta eat too.

 

[Cliffy]

NO.....

Why not?

 

[JLM]

Why not?

Probably more from emotion than logic.

 

[Cliffy]

Probably more from emotion than logic.

I'm the same way about trees and bears. I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I hear a bear eats a human and I get a severe pain in my stomach when I see a fresh clear cut.

 

[JLM]

I'm the same way about trees and bears. I get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I hear a bear eats a human and I get a severe pain in my stomach when I see a fresh clear cut.

Clear cuts are OK as long as they are kept small and a scattering of trees are left to impede erosion and enhance regeneration. Having had experience at falling I am quite familiar with the hazards of falling into standing timber. Safety concerns alone dictate you should always be falling from an "open face".

 

[Cliffy]

This is within spitting distance of Nakusp.

This is not logging, it is rape.