#ForestFriday

A magical tribute to Canada's #GnarliestTree - in #AvatarGrove in #PortRenfrew.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/canada-s-gnarliest-tree

https://vancouverislandview.com/finding-port-renfrews-biggest-trees

We fought hard to save the ancient trees & their life-sustaining wild ecosystems, to get Avatar Grove area protected & turned into a public park. It was previously on the corporate deforestation list prior to the hard grassroots fight to save this area of Port Renfrew, where old growth forests were rapidly dwindling due to colonial capitalist style of short-term greedy gains & putting nature last. Nature should be first.

#AncientTree #ElderTree #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VanIsle #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #Trees #Nature #SaveOldGrowth #CarbonSinks #AncientForest #ProtectForests #WorthMoreStanding #StopDeforestation #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ClimateChange #Ecology #ecosystems #Environment #forest #BCForestryReform #CedarTreeOfLife #ThickTrunkThurday

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/pristine-ancient-forest-frozen-in-time-discovered-in-rocky-mountains

#ancientforest #rockymountains #fossils

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/pristine-ancient-forest-frozen-in-time-discovered-in-rocky-mountains

#fossils #ancientforest #rockymountains #livescience

Global warming reveals ancient Rocky Mountain White pine forest above current tree line.
#archaeology #ClimateChange #Wyoming #RockyMountains #AncientForest
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2463397-melting-ice-reveals-millennia-old-forest-buried-in-the-rocky-mountains/

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Magnificent #OldGrowth red #cedar #tree 😍

#AncientTree #ElderTree #Wsanec #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VanIsle #VictoriaBC #YYJ #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #Trees #Nature #SaveOldGrowth #CarbonSinks #AncientForest #ProtectForests #WorthMoreStanding #StopDeforestation #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ClimateChange #Ecology #ecosystems #Environment #forest #BCForestryReform #CedarTreeOfLife

#ThrowbackThursday
2021.

I still am unable to go back here physically because it would break my heart too much. I spent almost 9 months, on/off, in the forest - trying to save the old growth trees here. The trees you see on the mountain slopes here are all gone. They were clearcut since this photo was taken from a resistance camp, higher up in the valley. I have seen aerial photos of what this spot looked like in 2023 - so many damn #ecocidal clearcuts into #AncientForest groves. This backs into #Carmannah #Walbran Park - which was also under threat of logging for awhile. It had to be blockaded before protection was granted. Avatar Grove & a few other #OldGrowth areas on Southern #VancouverIsland were given protection because activists fought hard to gain it.

#BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #VanIsle #StopClearcuts #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #ClimateActionNow #ProtectOldGrowth

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#Canada's gnarliest tree in #AvatarGrove #OldGrowth #forest.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/avatar-grove

#VancouverIsland #AncientTrees #nature #OldGrowthTree #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Trees #AncientForest #ProtectedTree #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #VictoriaBC #YYJ #PNW #VanIsle #WorldInMyEyes #TreeLovers #TemperateRainforest #TreeHugger #SaveOldGrowth

Shillelagh / Three-Sixteenths Staff / Bastard Stick 20230316-19. Knife carved holly from Caradon Woods.
#woodcarving #holly #forest #ancientforest

#ThickTrunkTuesday

#Trees being actual #treehuggers 🌲❤🌲
Two separate trees becoming one.

#OldGrowth #AncientForest #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #WorthMoreStanding #protectOldGrowth #SacredForests #hug #treelovers #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #nature #inTheWoods #cedar #embraced #gemel #Supportive #entwined #WorldInMyEyes #MyPerspective #TreeAppreciation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #StopDeforestation #Cascadia #ProtectOurForests #Westcoast #CoastalBC

I still think about this #tree... In the forests of #Lejre in #Denmark, this 200 Yr old #beech was so beautiful it made me cry (yes, I'm a sap). I hope I get back to it one day.
#ancientforest #nature

Coleford Welcomes Walkers and Writers

Forests and woodland have long inspired great works of literature such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s fascination with Puzzlewood invoking scenes from The Lord of the Rings. What better place to look for this then in a town in one of the most, well-known, and ancient forests in Britain; Coleford, in the Forest of Dean.

#Coleford #WalkersAreWelcome #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #Puzzlewood #ForestOfDean #AncientForest

So difficult to get a sense of sheer massive scale in ancient forests, using iPhone 13 no filters. I know the big hemlocks and untouched cedars have been growing here since the signing of the Magna Carta. And occasionally tumbling down in a riot of stone and lumber. I look for light to help. #nature #photography #washingtonstate #nationalforests #MtPilchuk #ancientforest #snoqualmieForest

https://interestingengineering.com/china-sinkhole-ancient-forest?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=article&utm_content=19052022

#sinkhole #ancientforest #china #interestingengineering