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#ThickTrunkTuesday
#OldGrowth #roots are sacred connections to #MotherEarth 💚

#Trees #TreeTrunks #rooted #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #TreesOfFediverse #Nature #ecological #environmental #ecosystems #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW

Thousands of baby #chinooks at a local #FishHatchery.

#SalmonFry #StagesOfLife #fish #salmon #KeystoneSpecies #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #SaveWildSalmon #WildSalmonAlliance #FishFarmsOut #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #SalmonStewardship #BCWildSalmon #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #nature #wildlife #conservation

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ColonizersLieAndSteal

#Bill14 & #Bill15 are #undemocratic bills that #BCNDP is shoving through. This #BCgovernment, under greasy #JohnHorgan groomed super sellout, former civil liberties lawyer guy, #DavidEby - is breaking its own law under the Declaration of the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples.

This type of #neoliberalism is right in line with #BillC5 from #GovernmentOfCanada under #MarkCarney federal Liberals(Conservatives, basically). They take actions which are against the publics' interests. They serve corporations over people & environment. They are always greenwashing & whitewashing, while helping with ecocidal corporate plundering & endangering our liveable futures.

These corrupted, corporate lobbyist pandering governments don't really give a damn about #IndigenousCommunities - they still want to exploit lands & steal resources without prior consultation or consent.

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #Decolonization #StopTheWhitewash #StopTheGreenwash #BCNewDeathParty #FascistAdjacent #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #CapitalismKills #EcocideDeathCult #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #Landback #StolenLands #IndianTrustFund #Canada #ColonialCriminals #EcoJustice #HumanRights #Ecocide #ProtectTheWild #environmental #ecological #ExtinctionRebellion #Canadian #UNDRIP

@mojo #FishFarmsOut #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #Ecocide #NoConsent

Hard to show the scale of this old growth beauty from this shot. It takes about 4 humans, holding hands, to hug the whole trunk of this ancient yellow cedar tree.

Click on photo to see full frame.

#Cedar #Trees #Tlaoquiaht #Indigenous #TribalPark #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClayoquotSound #ElderTrees #BigTreesOfBC #rainforest #Tofino #MearesIsland #SilentSunday

2020 on #MearesIsland. #ThickTrunkTuesday

A colossal #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is part of the #Tlaoquiaht #FirstNations #TribalPark.
I hiked the big trees trails there - magnificent!

#OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClayoquotSound #ElderTrees #BigTreesOfBC #NativeParks #IndigenousParks

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is older than the Great Wall of China & older than the Vatican.
All #ElderTrees - of this colossal & majestic scale, must be preserved & their ecosystems protected.

#OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW

#MosstodonMonday

Young #cedar #tree is all dressed in magnificent #mosses & #lichen 💚
One of the lovely sights you can see & admire, while exploring the coastal temperate rainforests in BC.

#Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #nature #wilderness #forest #green #rainforest #ecological #biodiversity #ecosystems #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #ProtectTheWild #NatureFirst #StopDeforestation #TreesAreEarthsLungs #mosstodon

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.

The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #SaveOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #StopDeforestation #AncientTrees #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #NatureFirst #ProtectTheWild #ForestsForever #TreesOverGreed #StopEcocide #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Environmentalist #OneEarth #BCNDP #Cowichan #ProtectOldGrowth #Degrowth #BigTreesOfBC #CoastalTemperateRainforests #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #TreeLovers #Arbor #Trees #TreeHugger

2020.
When 3 Coast Salish Indigenous Chiefs invited me to join their small lead boat crew to meet up with other boats from Campbell River, Comox, Lund, Quadra Island & Discovery Islands to block some restocking of open net fish farms & demand that they get out of BC waters.

#VancouverIsland #FishFarmsOut #DirectAction #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #KeystoneSpecies #ecology #CampbellRiver #WildlifeConservation #ProtectEcosystems #environmentalist #AsianMastodon #OceanGuardians #Boating #Protest #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #PNW

Tsahaukuse, George Quocksister Jr. is a #HereditaryChief of the #Laichkwiltach Nation and the son of Elizabeth and George Quocksister. He is a passionate advocate for the protection of #WildSalmon as a crucial part of his culture and the food security of his people, and is working to ban the practice of #SalmonFarming on the west coast. He lives in Campbell River, BC.

This is from our 2020 #DiscoveryIslands flotilla protest & restocking patrol with George & 2 other BC Indigenous Chiefs(Darren Blaney & Bill Wilson) from North Island regions.

The fight to get fish farms out of BC waters started in the late 80s & continues.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/video-appears-to-show-disfigured-farmed-salmon-1.4261637

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #DirectAction #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #SalmonPeople #KeystoneSpecies #ecology #WildlifeConservation #ProtectEcosystems #environmental

With #Namgis #FirstNation crew at 2022 #WildSalmon #flotilla #protest in #Tofino. This flotilla was led by Namgis Chief, Ernest Alfred - in the middle of photo.

Our boat captain is on far right, Willie Mitchell, Indigenous former #NHL player. I was invited to join Namgis leaders boat for this flotilla.

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #monochrome

#FlashbackFriday
2020.

Cruising back to Campbell River from #FishFarmsOut flotilla protest & no restocking patrol.

Always put #WildFirst ✊️

#ProtectTheWild #WildSalmonAlliance #NoLicenseRenewal #Frankenfish #Environmentalist #Ecological #Activism #DirectAction #OneEarth #OceanGuardians #SalmonGuardians #StandUpForSalmon #BoycottFarmedSalmon #SayNoToFarmedSalmon #CDNpoli #BCpoli #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #BCcoast #CoastalBC #Westcoast #Oceans #DemandMPAs #PNW #Activist #ProtectNature #DiscoveryIslands #archipelago #boating #marine

#FlashbackFriday
2020.

I was invited to go on a #flotilla #protest led by #IndigenousChiefs & leaders from the North Island in late 2019 - we went in March of 2020. To stop 2 open net fish farms, in the #DiscoveryIslands archipelago, from restocking their pens. These fish farms are remote & they don't want public to access them. No restocking was able to happen on day we went on flotilla protest & patrol.

I've been a part of the battle here to get #FishFarmsOut for over a decade. There's finally some progress but we need to still keep up the pressure on federal & provincial governments.
#SaveWildSalmon because they're a #KeystoneSpecies & if we lose them, it sets off chain reactions in both #ocean & #OldGrowthForest #ecosystems. Wild salmon are extremely important to the Indigenous peoples of BC & the fight to protect them goes back decades.

Always put #WildFirst ✊️

#ProtectTheWild #WildSalmonAlliance #NoLicenseRenewal #FloatingViruses #Frankenfish #Environmentalist #Ecological #Activism #DirectAction #OneEarth #OceanGuardians #SalmonGuardians #SalmonPeople #StandUpForSalmon #BoycottFarmedSalmon #SayNoToFarmedSalmon #CDNpoli #BCpoli #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #BCcoast #CoastalBC #Westcoast #Oceans #DemandMPAs #PNW #Activist #ProtectNature

#MosstodonMonday

Mossy trees, in coastal temperate rainforest, by a quiet, isolated spot; beside a lovely, fish bearing creek. The air smells amazing in this natural environment 💚

#BackroadAdventures #VancouverIsland #nature #PacificNorthwest #ProtectTheWild #forest #VanIsle #Cascadia #ProtectNature #ecosystem #Ecology #photography #WorldInMyEyes #hiking #DisabledPhotographer

#SilentSunday

Please take some time watch my deceased friend, Twyla's #documentary. She worked extremely hard with Alexandra Morton to create this film doc. It's about the plight of #BCWildSalmon & why many of us activists here have been fighting to get all open net fish farms out of BC coastal waters. They should have never been allowed to set up operations in the first place.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fTCQ2IA_Zss

#FishFarmsOut #SaveWildSalmon #WildFirst #WildSalmonAlliance #WatershedWatch #ProtectTheWild #BCpoli #NoLicenseRenewal #BanOpenNetFishFarms #MarineVirusFactories #KeystoneSpecies #BritishColumbia #CDNpoli #DFO #MarineLife #DeadlyFishFarms #Environmentalist #Activism #ProtectOurOceans #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #Fish #biodiversity #ecological #BoycottFarmedSalmon #DontEatFarmedSalmon #KnowWhatYouEat #SalmonConfidential #FilmDoc #BCFilm #CanadianFilm #FilmedInBC #TwylasLegacy

*GOOD. Keep open net fish farms out of BC waters. Mowi is nasty. They still haven't cleaned up their abandoned hatcheries too. I have evidence. Sent to DFO.*

The federal government is standing by its decision not to renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms in #BritishColumbia ’s #DiscoveryIslands , despite recent court challenges.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9574011/federal-government-stands-by-b-c-salmon-farm-closures/amp

#FishFarmsOut #WildSalmonAlliance #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #SaveWildSalmon #KeystoneSpecies #ProtectWildSalmon #PNW

The #NatureConservancyOfCanada (NCC) on Friday #announced the complete #protection of #ecologically #sensitive lands surrounding #LoonLake - located north of #Kingston #Ontario .

#NCC & #nature #champion #MonteHummel have reached an #agreement to #protect the final piece of #PrivateLand in a #conservation network that spans over 2,000 hectares.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9559585/land-near-kingston-protected-nature-conservancy-of-canada/amp

#GoodNews #Canada #ProtectNature #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #biodiversity #ecosystem #ecology #KingstonON #environment

Friends don't let friends eat #FarmedSalmon 🤢

#FishFarmsOut #StopEcocide #ProtectEcosystems #ProtectOurOceans #NoOpenNetFishFarms #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #SaveWildSalmon #vanisle #VancouverIsland #Tofino #ClayoquotSound #DiscoveryIslands #QuadraIsland #StopFishFarms #DFOSucks #PNW #PacificNorthwest #WildSalmon

I love #AncientTrees 🌲😍🌲 This #RedCedar #elderTree is over 1000 yrs old.

#WorthMoreStanding #OldGrowth #SacredForests #protectOldGrowth #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #irreplaceable #wilderness #TreeHugger #ProtectOurForests #ForestsForever #biodiversity #StopDeforestation #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #ClayoquotSound #MearesIsland #RespectNature #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #OneEarth #ClimateChange #ForestProtector #Ecology #environmental