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Forest ecologist Michelle Connolly sits in front of a slash pile in B.C.’s inland rainforest, one of the rarest ecosystems on the planet. Logging contractors attempted to burn this pile and others but were stymied by wet weather. Trees grow to be ma
The Inland Temperate Rainforest holds one of the highest diversity of Lichen on the planet. Including oceanic species so far from the coast their presence is “almost inconceivable.” Says Scientist Trevor Goward.
The Goat River valley (left) is one of only a few inland temperate rainforest watersheds that haven’t been logged. Next to a clear cut near Hwy 16 West of Prince George BC
Michelle Connolly’s forest survey notes and GPS
A new road being carved into the old-growth inland temperate rainforest east of Prince George, B.C., in preparation for logging.
Clear cut logging in the Anzac River Valley. The valley bottom, where caribou migrate to find lichen during deep-snow winters, is also slated to be logged.
A grove of ancient cedar trees in B.C.’s rare inland temperate rainforest. Some cedars in this globally unique forest are estimated to be more than 1,500 years old. What little remains of the unprotected rainforest is now slated to be clear-cut.
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Dominick DellaSala, president and chief scientist at the Geos Institute, in front of a slash pile waiting to be burned in the Anzac River Valley of British Columbia.
Thousands of spruce and balsam fir logs are piled at Canfor’s Polar Mill near Prince George, B.C.
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The new boundaries of an old-growth management area are marked with orange spray paint along the Fraser Flats forest service road in B.C.’s inland temperate rainforest. In B.C., old-growth management area boundaries can be moved to accommodate loggi
Rusted piping and metal debris left behind when Canfor’s Upper Fraser mill closed.
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Canfor sawmill in Prince George.
A black bear rests beside a logging road cut through the inland temperate rainforest.
Thousands of spruce and balsam fir logs are piled at Canfor’s Polar Mill near Prince George, B.C.
Clear cut logging in the Anzac River Valley. The valley bottom, where caribou migrate to find lichen during deep-snow winters, is also slated to be logged.
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Clearcut near Highway 16, west of Prince George BC.