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Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees

Tekijä: Harley Rustad

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"On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and flag the boundaries for clear-cutting. As he made his way through the forest, Cronin came across a massive Douglas-fir the height of a twenty-storey building. It was one of the largest trees in Canada that if felled and milled could easily fetch more than fifty thousand dollars. Instead of moving on, he reached into his vest pocket for a flagging he rarely used, tore off a strip, and wrapped it around the base of the trunk. Along the length of the ribbon were the words "Leave Tree." When the fallers arrived, every wiry cedar, every droopy-topped hemlock, every great fir was cut down and hauled away--all except one. The solitary tree stood quietly in the clear cut until activist and photographer T.J. Watt stumbled upon the Douglas-fir while searching for big trees for the Ancient Forest Alliance, an environmental organization fighting to protect British Columbia's dwindling old-growth forests. The single Douglas-fir exemplified their cause: the grandeur of these trees juxtaposed with their plight. They gave it a name: Big Lonely Doug. The tree would also eventually, and controversially, be turned into the poster child of the Tall Tree Capital of Canada, attracting thousands of tourists every year and garnering the attention of artists, businesses, and organizations who saw new values encased within its bark. Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast's big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and cultural rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees."--… (lisätietoja)

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I'm not sure where I read about this book (maybe CBC?) but I thought it would appeal to me and it certainly did. It is about the history of the B.C. forestry industry, forestry management, involved environmental mavericks and of course the impact for indigenous people. The focus is on Vancouver Island, mostly around Port Renfrew and tells story of the discovery of a massive douglas fir named "Big Lonely Doug". The book is well written and informative i.e. only two in three logs is processed and used in the province and the rest are exported raw to mostly China, Japan and the U.S. without any value added locally. Wow!

p. 171 A fresh cutblock is a jarring sight to behold. Along each colossal stump runs a ridge of splintered wood where the tree fractured as it fell. Emily Carr in her wanderings of Vancouver Island in search of landscapes to paint, called these remains "screamers". They are "the cry of the tree's heart" she wrote, Wrenching and tearing apart just before she gives that sway and the dreadful groan of falling, that dreadful pause while her executioners step back with their saws and axes resting and watch. It is a horrible sight to see a tree felled, even now though the stumps are grey and rotting. As you pass among them you see their screamers sticking up out of their own tombstones, as it were. They are their own tombstones and their own mourners."

p.257 The B.C. forests were what Emily Carr called " Perfectly ordered disorder designed with helter-skelter magnificence".

Another interesting thing about the book was its discussion of intense storms over time (one in 1906) with huge winds that hurl huge areas of trees down tumble bumble as if they were pick-up-sticks. We have recently witnessed these hurricane force winds on a Gulf Island that snapped 18"diameter trees down and up ended huge trees and their root balls.

It was interesting to read about Ed Burtynsky filming Big Lonely Doug with a drone for his film Anthropocene . I have seen this film which was stunning (and frightening) but don't remember the Doug. However I have seen a few dougs in my time and mostly they fire off massive numbers cones for my inconvenience. Oh the trials!

mdoris | Jan 15, 2019 |

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"On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and flag the boundaries for clear-cutting. As he made his way through the forest, Cronin came across a massive Douglas-fir the height of a twenty-storey building. It was one of the largest trees in Canada that if felled and milled could easily fetch more than fifty thousand dollars. Instead of moving on, he reached into his vest pocket for a flagging he rarely used, tore off a strip, and wrapped it around the base of the trunk. Along the length of the ribbon were the words "Leave Tree." When the fallers arrived, every wiry cedar, every droopy-topped hemlock, every great fir was cut down and hauled away--all except one. The solitary tree stood quietly in the clear cut until activist and photographer T.J. Watt stumbled upon the Douglas-fir while searching for big trees for the Ancient Forest Alliance, an environmental organization fighting to protect British Columbia's dwindling old-growth forests. The single Douglas-fir exemplified their cause: the grandeur of these trees juxtaposed with their plight. They gave it a name: Big Lonely Doug. The tree would also eventually, and controversially, be turned into the poster child of the Tall Tree Capital of Canada, attracting thousands of tourists every year and garnering the attention of artists, businesses, and organizations who saw new values encased within its bark. Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast's big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and cultural rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees."--

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