Company Logging Cathedral Grove 25% owned by BC Government

-Richard Boyce, Island Lens
Cathedral Grove is under attack again, this time by a company that the BC government owns 25% of through a numbered company in Manitoba. Does the public know that the same government responsible for protecting this unique old growth forest is logging adjacent to this world famous provincial park?
Scott Fraser, MLA for [...]

Protesters threaten to disrupt logging near the border of Cathedral Grove

Julia Caranci, Canwest
PORT ALBERNI — Protesters are threatening to interfere with operations near
the border of Cathedral Grove Park using non-violent means. But some
reports suggest plans to log 7,500 cubic metres — or about 200 logging
trucks full — of old-growth forest could be on hold for the moment.

Cathedral Grove Logging Blocked by “Frogs” and “Mice”

Early Monday morning, Vancouver Islanders placed a symbolic roadblock across an active logging road in Cathedral Grove next to MacMillan Provincial Park. Volunteers with Friends of the Grove (FROG) warned
Island Timberlands contractors that others in the forest are prepared to interfere with logging operations by playing “cat and mouse” with the loggers.

Old-Growth Logged in Cathedral Grove

-Richard Boyce
While the logging company claims that there is a buffer of 300 metres between the falling area and the internationally renowned park, the reality is that the buffer is actually the Cameron River which meanders along the bottom of the Valley at that point just before flowing into Cameron Lake. This water then [...]

Timber company to log on border of Cathedral Grove

Cutting expected to begin within days, firm says
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist; With files from Canwest News Services
Island Timberlands plans to log old-growth forest on the edge of Cathedral Grove.
The company, which owns private forest land around the 300-hectare MacMillan Provincial Park outside Port Alberni, will be harvesting about 7,500 cubic metres of timber in an [...]