The Road MUST Stop Here

The Road Stops Here - 1991 info video on the Walbran Valley

I understand that I have already posted today on the matter of the Walbran Valley, but we need momentum, we need letters, we need our Government to stand up and take notice.  Watch the video and follow the link below to write your letter to the Government, all you have to do is fill out the form and once you hit send it will automatically be forwarded to the necessary people.

Times Colonist: Old-Growth Logging in the Walbran Valley

CTV-News coverage: Walbran Valley Threatened

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Here is my letter:

RE: No old-growth logging in the Walbran Valley

First allow me to share a very pivotal experience for me; in grade nice I watched "The Road Stops Here" and as I sat in my grade nine Geography class crying I believed that the Government had actually heard the shouts of the protesters.  I fooled myself into believing the Government had the best interests of the environment at heart.  However, with time complacency breeds and we forget what it was these protesters fought so hard for.

Over time, we have all forgotten: The Walbran Valley contains some of the last intact tracts of old-growth temperate rain-forest left anywhere on southern Vancouver Island and that once this is removed it will be a desert of rock and land slides.

We have turned a blind eye to the fact that: Over 90 per cent of Vancouver Island’s low-elevation old-growth forest has already been logged, and we have a responsibility to conserve the rest for future generations.  I would like to be able to walk my children over the bridge where the protests happened and be able to say: Child this is what protesting can do, it can protect trees so old they have out lived world wars and provided cures for Cancer and could potentially provide clues for more cures in the future.

We need to remember that old-growth forests are more valuable standing because they provide habitat for endangered species, its an irreplaceable cultural and recreational resource and as a storage sink for climate-changing carbon.

The Walbran provides habitat for several endangered species, including the marbled murrelet and red-legged frog.

The BC government currently does not have a plan to conserve what’s left of the province’s old-growth forests, so it needs to halt old-growth logging now – starting with the Walbran Valley.

We need to stop pillaging something so priceless.

We need to keep this for the furture.

Remember: "If we lose our forests, if we savage this land, we might as well be cutting off our own right hand"



Erin McLeese
Victoria, BC