#douglasfir — Public Fediverse posts

A proposed development for a private property on Admirals Road will result in the removal of 33 #GarryOak trees. The #Esquimalt #Climate Organizers have started a petition to prevent this from happening.

This petition asks the #EsquimaltCouncil to deny the current #development permit for the property and require it to be redesigned to allow for the #preservation of the Garry Oak and #DouglasFir #ecosystem. The removal of these #trees would have a large negative impact on #habitat and hydrology for the community, and will require 66 #replacement trees elsewhere as per Esquimalt’s #TreeProtection bylaw.

Please sign the #petition
https://c.org/kgxpP2yfLd

#SignPetition #ClimateAction #Ecological #VictoriaBC #YYJ #ViewRoyal #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #CapitalRegionalDistrict #SaveTheTrees #biodiversity

My #PhotoArt tribute to #BigLonelyDoug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world.

Learn more about this lonely #OldGrowth tree:
"It has the third highest tree score and third widest diameter of any known Douglas-fir in Canada, following the Red Creek Fir in the nearby San Juan Valley and the Bonin Giant in the Coquitlam River watershed in British Columbia's Lower Mainland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Dididaht #TreeLovers #fir #EarthNeedsGuardians #nature #CarbonSink #Climate #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CapitalismKillsEverything #Environmentalist #PhotoEdit #VisualArt #ThickTrunkTuesday

In the distance, the 100-year forest. In the foreground, what’s left when a strip of that forest is felled, yarded, hauled, and most of what’s left is heaped into 4-metre high piles. All of that happened less than 12 months ago. In the next season the forest’s renewal will become evident. In the meantime, there’s a scar. And my memories of stillness, deer, bear, and big Douglas Firs.

#Pnw #vancouverisland #bxw #photography #foto #forest #nature #summer #fall #autumn #trees #forestry #logging #douglasfir #worthmorestanding #secondgrowth

A sunlit path through the 100-year forest.
The North Georgia Plain was once a “loggers paradise.“ Large swaths of even-aged Douglas Fir stood where a large wildfire had raged in the 1600s. By 1940, the larger portion of this “paradise” was felled, yarded, boomed, and towed to mills on the Fraser River. Cleared of stumps and slash that paradise made way for farms. Wherever the forest returned, it was being cut a second time once it reached 50+ years. Only in small corners, or in strips along creeks or at the edge of farm fields, and the rare park, is the 100-year forest becoming itself.
These trees lie in one of those farm strips. A small salmon-bearing creek runs through it. A local elementary school created this trail. In the later fall, when the summer drought is washed away by the rains, teachers bring their classes here. They might learn how the forest and the salmon nourish each other.

#vancouverisland #bxw #photography #foto #forest #nature #salmon #douglasfir

In the 100-year woods.
Two large second growth Douglas Firs stand on the edge of a younger stand of Firs. The younger stand may have grown in a clearing (for a field for livestock grazing, or extensive gardens, it’s not clear) made by settlers in the early part of the 20th century. This once-cleared area is lined by these large second growth Firs.

#vancouverisland #bxw #blackandwhite #forest #forestphotography #texture #nature #naturephotography #trees #douglasfir #secondgrowth #bigtrees #settlement

In the 100-year wood.
A Broadleaf Maple, flanked by two second growth Douglas Firs.
Maples are an important, often under-appreciated, part of the coastal forest here on Vancouver Island.

#bxw #photography #foto #forest #trees #vancouverisland #secondgrowth #douglasfir #maples #forestry

A trail, a bridge, ferns, and a (mostly dry) creek… in the 100-year woods.

#VancouverIsland #forest #trees #bxw #photography #foto #forestpath #secondgrowth #douglasfir

#ThickTrunkTuesday
This 2nd growth #DouglasFir #SnagTree is still standing after many wild Westcoast storms. Snag trees are essential for healthy #forest #ecosystems. They provide food, shelter/habitat for wildlife & their roots are still connected to family of forest trees, mutually aiding each other.

#TreeLovers #TreeHugger #trees #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #nature #arbor #WorldInMyEyes #StopDeforestation #TreesOverGreed #TreeTuesday #BWphoto #monochrome #photography #GnarlyTrees

An arbutus (two views) for #ThickTrunkTuesday

#photo #photography #yyj #Victoria #BC #NorthSaanich #ColesBayRegionalPark #trees #arbutus #Pacificmadrone #Douglasfir

I admired these two different #trees in #GorgePark on my #NatureWalk this morning.
#Arbutus #Madrona & #DouglasFir

https://youtube.com/shorts/acagiLuiMqo?si=aRxiyy1lMf1T3jAd

#nature #SaanichParks #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #GetOutside #YYJ #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #Wsanec #PNW #TreeHugger #TreeLovers #Arbor #NatureVideos

Back to my favourite spot on #bchwy4 for the first time since the highway and all the parks alonside reopened. This is the side of the fire that got closest to Cathedral Grove but was thankfully held from advancing over the next ridge. #BeaufortPark #CameronLake #BCWildfire #wildfires #Mosstodon #ThickTrunkThursday #lichen #DouglasFir