To see all interactive maps of all the approved cut blocks in the area, visit https://www.universalwildlands.com/reports.
There’s over 5 km of road building approved into the Greater Fairy Creek Rainforest, including into the headwaters of the intact valley known as “Cloud Forest,” which is home to some of the oldest yellow cedar trees in Canada. There are also two approved cut blocks in an area known as “the 2000 Road” which is home to high productivity cedar forest. Another large section of the rainforest in Granite Creek has been approved for massive amounts of logging and road building. Including an approved road into the last intact valley bottom stand of old growth in the entire Granite Creek watershed.
The Central Walbran has over 5 km of approved road building. Two roads are approved into intact sections of old growth forest adjacent to the Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park on House Cone and near Sad Lake. If built, these logging roads will precipitate the fragmentation of some of the last intact sections of old growth in the Central Walbran. Teal Jones also has approval to log 13 helicopter units in the Central Walbran, these helicopter units target the best remaining stands of Western Red Cedar outside of Castle Grove
Some of the best remaining monumental Cedar Forest is at stake in the Caycuse watershed. Teal Jones has six approved cut blocks in low elevation valley bottom old growth, and has completed road building into another section of forest on the lower river.
Bugaboo Creek is the site of multiple approvals most notably a 2 km long road network approved into the last section of intact old growth in the watershed. This forest contains some of the best high elevation old growth yellow and western red cedar seen outside of the Central Walbran.
The very last stands of old growth in the entire Camper Creek watershed are slated for logging. Almost nothing is left in Camper creek and Teal Jones has been granted approvals to log much of what is left.
Western Forest Products has approvals to clear cut a massive track of western red cedar on mount Walbran in the upper Walbran watershed. The approval would destroy some of the last old growth forest in that section of the watershed.
Edinburgh mountain is one of the largest sections of unprotected old growth forest on Southern Vancouver island, over the past several years Teal Jones has been granted 3 new road building approvals into the high elevation, mid elevation and low elevation forests of the mountain. The company has five approved cut blocks on the mountain two of which could be clear-cut any day.