Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was “incredible,” the largest he’d ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island.
The monumental cedar stood in what was one of the few intact or nearly intact old-growth valleys left on the island, says Wright, an advocate who also recorded the sounds of marbled murrelet birds — a threatened species under federal law — within the same forest.
Wright measured the cedar’s diameter at 2.79 metres, a size that should have ensured protection for the tree, along with a one-hectare logging buffer under provincial law.
But when he returned to the area south of Gold River in June, Wright says the tree had been felled as part of a logging operation approved by the province.
Considering that their Nations stewarded this land for thousands of years and they learned firsthand how to do that through their own scientific lens, yes, they should have a say in how WE steward THEIR lands.
You literally used the argument that the actions of one indigenous owned company means we should be weary of how all indigenous voices are heard and respected. I don’t think you can talk your way out of the racism of that.
Obviously, no true First Nations person would disrespect their land, just as no true Scotsman puts sugar on their oatmeal.
I said be critical of everyone. Even - especially - the environmental organizations.
That’s not really what you said … but whatever I guess.
Fair point.