A valley worth saving, and a cause greater than us: The Road Stops here, reboot.
When I was in grade nine Geography I was introduced to a video that caused my heart to burn with fear and tears to fall from my eyes. I was not part of the protests that saved the Walbran Valley from certain doom in 1991, I was eleven at the time and living in Ontario; a place where the idea of a forest was "tree farms" and "tree lots" or the small spattering of trees left along creeks and riverbeds. I had no idea trees could grow so large and tall that it could take up the 30 or more people hand to hand just to encircle it.
Then, I saw the movie, I saw the ravaged mountainsides and felt a pain that only a person with a true understanding of Environment would understand. And as my teacher turned off the short 30 minute video he said: there will come a time, in your life, when you will have to choose, choose between keeping silent or speaking up for something or someone who can't help themselves. Someone or something that once snuffed out will never be back to grace us with their beauty.
Please, become part of a greater cause, something more important than merely remembering to recycle your paper on recycling day.
Write a letter, because once this bit of forest is gone, all we will have left is desert and no more forest.
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