Logging trucks in the Upper Walbran Valley were met with an unusual blockade Monday morning — a 15-foot cougar sculpture erected by anonymous forest defenders demanding permanent protection of one of Vancouver Island’s last intact old-growth watersheds.
The group, which says it has the blessing of several local First Nations elders, is targeting eight provincially approved cut blocks in Tree Farm License 44.
The license is currently held by C̕awak ʔqin Forestry, a limited partnership between the Huu-ay-aht First Nation and Western Forest Products ...
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