The Ken Rei, loading logs in Port Alberni earlier this year.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Log export forecast
Two ships are loading raw logs from Vancouver Island this week. The Ocean Harmony (Hong Kong) is loading logs at Harmac on Monday and Tuesday, and the Ken Rei (Vanuatu by way of Shanghai) is loading at Harmac on Saturday.
The Ken Rei, loading logs in Port Alberni earlier this year.
The Ken Rei, loading logs in Port Alberni earlier this year.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Log export forecast
One ship is loading raw logs from Vancouver Island this week. The Ocean Harmony (Hong Kong) is loading logs in Port Alberni through Thursday, and in Nanaimo on Friday.
The Ocean Harmony, photographed in Vancouver
The Ocean Harmony, photographed in Vancouver
Monday, November 14, 2011
Log export forecast
One ship is loading raw logs from Vancouver Island this week.
The Cook Strait (Hong Kong) is loading in Port Alberni Monday through Thursday, and in Crofton on Friday.
The Cook Strait, shown here in Seattle.
The Cook Strait (Hong Kong) is loading in Port Alberni Monday through Thursday, and in Crofton on Friday.
The Cook Strait, shown here in Seattle.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Updated: Coastal Douglas Fir near Nanoose Bay
Logging of old-growth Douglas fir trees began today above the west end of Nanoose Bay. The Crown land known as DL 33 has been the site of a struggle between local environmentalists and the Snaw-naw-as (Nanoose) First Nation, which holds a permit to log the grove.
Update: "People in the woods" halted logging on November 9 and 10, according to eyewitnesses.
Below, loggers on the walking trail into DL 33.
The woodlot is one of the last stands of old-growth coastal Douglas fir on the east island.
Commercial logging has stripped Vancouver Island of most of its original Douglas fir forests. Some of these trees are estimated to be 300 years old.
Info: Nanoose Bay Forest. Photos: James Coccola.
Update: "People in the woods" halted logging on November 9 and 10, according to eyewitnesses.
Below, loggers on the walking trail into DL 33.
The woodlot is one of the last stands of old-growth coastal Douglas fir on the east island.
Commercial logging has stripped Vancouver Island of most of its original Douglas fir forests. Some of these trees are estimated to be 300 years old.
Info: Nanoose Bay Forest. Photos: James Coccola.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Log export forecast
One ship is loading raw logs from Vancouver Island this week.
The English Bay (Hong Kong) is loading logs at Harmac until Friday.
The English Bay, shown here in Seattle.
The English Bay, shown here in Seattle.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Update: Clearcut logging near China Beach
Clearcut logging across the highway from the entrance to China Beach campground, behind a "beauty strip" of unlogged forest.
Tansky Main, opposite China Beach Campground on Highway 14.
The company doing the logging is Queesto, a partnership between the Pacheedaht First Nation and Canadian Overseas Group. The land was once part of Tree Farm License 25, but is now part of the new Tree Farm License 61 (PDF map) which is owned by the partnership.
No men with chainsaws here. The logging is done with feller-bunchers. These machines (shown above) cut and drop a tree in a few seconds. Five machines were operating in the cutblock, which after just a couple weeks is the size of ten football fields. A forester said the whole hillside (about 100 football fields) will be stripped by Christmas.
The loggers are contractors. There were no Pacheedaht First Nation members working in the cutblock. The logs are not supplying the mini-sawmill on the Pacheedaht reserve - they are trucked to the Jordan River log sort, then to a mill on the Fraser River. The milled lumber is sent to China and elsewhere.
According to news reports, the Pacheedaht First Nation paid at least $300,000 for the right to harvest timber on their traditional territory. It will take years to pay off the debt.
Photos by James Coccola.
Tansky Main, opposite China Beach Campground on Highway 14.
The company doing the logging is Queesto, a partnership between the Pacheedaht First Nation and Canadian Overseas Group. The land was once part of Tree Farm License 25, but is now part of the new Tree Farm License 61 (PDF map) which is owned by the partnership.
No men with chainsaws here. The logging is done with feller-bunchers. These machines (shown above) cut and drop a tree in a few seconds. Five machines were operating in the cutblock, which after just a couple weeks is the size of ten football fields. A forester said the whole hillside (about 100 football fields) will be stripped by Christmas.
The loggers are contractors. There were no Pacheedaht First Nation members working in the cutblock. The logs are not supplying the mini-sawmill on the Pacheedaht reserve - they are trucked to the Jordan River log sort, then to a mill on the Fraser River. The milled lumber is sent to China and elsewhere.
According to news reports, the Pacheedaht First Nation paid at least $300,000 for the right to harvest timber on their traditional territory. It will take years to pay off the debt.
Photos by James Coccola.
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