Photo Gallery: Logging Vancouver Island

 

The land, the industry and some of the people involved in the Island's logging industry

 
January 10, 2010
 
 
 
A logging truck loaded with Douglas fir and other tree species rumbles from the Gordon River area towards Lake Cowichan. Critics say the rate of logging is increasing both on Crown lands near Port Renfrew and private managed forest lands near Jordan River.
 

A logging truck loaded with Douglas fir and other tree species rumbles from the Gordon River area towards Lake Cowichan. Critics say the rate of logging is increasing both on Crown lands near Port Renfrew and private managed forest lands near Jordan River.

Photograph by: TJ Watt , Special to Times Colonist

 
A logging truck loaded with Douglas fir and other tree species rumbles from the Gordon River area towards Lake Cowichan. Critics say the rate of logging is increasing both on Crown lands near Port Renfrew and private managed forest lands near Jordan River.
Scott Bonner walks past a marker to locate a future logging road near the Koksilah River surrounded by areas where selected logging is slated to occur in Victoria, BC on Monday, May 28, 2007.
Logging activity near Port Alberni.
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
Tour operators, environmentalists and media hiked into old growth grove near the Koksilah River surrounded by areas where selected logging is slated to occur in Victoria, BC on Monday, May 28, 2007.
2007: Scalers and loaders do their work in the sort area of the Ladysmith Sawmill division, Western Forest Products
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
Protesters stand in the way of a logging truck attempting to leave the Spencer Rd. interchange construction area in Victoria, BC on Thursday, February 21, 2008.
Archive: Ken Wu poses with one of the largest trees in Canada in the Upper Walbran Valley on southwestern Vancouver Island.
A logging truck going to the log sort in Port McNeill on Wednesday, .June 4, 2008.
March 14, 2007: Curt Shewchuk of Sure Span Construction, Vancouver and Lyle Newton of Island Pacific Logging, discuss dismantling old bridge that was originally built for logging the area.
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
Here a logging site on Hill 60 just past the Paldi turnoff is typical of the area all around Lake Cowichan and northwest, which sees about 200 or more logging trucks pass by each day loaded with logs for raw export.
2007: A logging truck heads out of the town of Youbou taking raw logs to other towns and cities which has been one of the biggest complaints of local residents.
Logging in the Cowichan Valley area
A log sort area near Telegraph Coveon Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
 
 
 
 
 

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