“Clearcut Carnage” in Nahmint

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The Ancient Forest Alliance says recent logging of the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni shows the waste caused by indiscriminate clear cuts.

Campaigner and photographer TJ Watt calls the scene “old growth carnage” and fears more massive trees will soon fall in other areas of the valley.

“What I’ve documented in the spectacular Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni is truthfully old-growth carnage,” he said. “In that area we found cedar trees upwards of 9 feet or 3 m wide well over 500 years old and cut down. This is a clear cut that spans over 30 football fields in size that was actually planned and approved by the BC government’s logging agency BC timber sales.”

The Ancient Forest Alliance says this area should have never been logged and should have been a part of the millions of hectares protected by deferrals because it was originally identified as an at-risk old-growth forest.

(photo submitted)