To Oceanside Newsbreak Re:

Cutting the Forests DL33

by Ingmar Lee

Hi All; as the corporate media begin to swarm around the DL33 issue, a key aspect of their framing strategy is to repeat the bogus claim that "...there is more than 250,000 hectares of the Coastal Douglas-fir ecosystem left in B.C., but only 9% is on Crown land..."

This suggests to the reader that the CDF eco-system, which comprises 20% of Vancouver Island, was in a stable, viable condition of health. This statement adds the even more preposterous implication that private interests had managed the CDF eco-system more conservatively than their public counterparts.

 

If there was a quarter million hectare tract of primaeval CDF ecosystem left anywhere in BC, we'd certainly be fighting to protect that, regardless of whether it be on private or public land.

The central issue for DL33 is that conventional industrial logging, whether private or public, has utterlty ransacked and destroyed more than 97% of the primaeval CDF ecosystem.

 

Tiny postage-stamp patches of CDF like DL 33 are therefore priceless, irreplaceable refugia-tuft habitat oases, which store the final wilderness processes and DNA of one of the worlds most magnificent, and now virtually extinct ecosystems.

It is despicable that the Gordon Campbell government is using DL 33 to drive a wedge between a community that works to protect natures most magnificent and endangered splendors, and the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation, whose ancestral stewardship lasted over 10,000 years and brought the CDF forests to their epitomal efflorescence.

The environmental community understands and respects First Nations suzerainty over the lands, we want the lands returned even, ~ and we expect that with careful, respectful work, a mutually agreeable solution can be found which protects the forest, and which is much more beneficial to the Snaw-Naw-As Nation than the pathetic fare and controversy that the Campbell government is offering.

 

Cheers,  Ingmar



On 29 December Oceanside News Break
http://www.canada.com/Disputed+logged/4036314/story.html