Canada's Largest Tree - The Cheewhat Giant!

Please SIGN our PETITION here: http://www.ancientforestpetition.com

Seen here is Canada's largest tree, a western redcedar named the Cheewhat Giant growing in a remote location near Cheewhat Lake within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on southerwestern Vancouver Island. The tree measures over 6 meters (20 feet) in trunk diameter, 56 meters (182 feet) in height, and 450 cubic meters in timber volume (or 450 regular telephone poles worth of wood). Luckily the tree, discovered in 1988, is within the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, which was created in 1971.

The video clip also shows new clearcuts and giant stumps of redcedar trees, some over 4 meters (14 feet) in diameter in the Klanawa Valley adjacent to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and also near the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park, a short distance to the south.

Satellite photos show that about 75% of the original, productive old-growth forests on Vancouver Island have been logged, including 90% of the valley bottoms where the largest trees grow and most biodiversity is found. On southern Vancouver Island, south of Barkley Sound, about 87% of the original, productive old-growth forests have been logged.

See "before" and "after" old-growth forest maps at: http://www.ancientforestalliance.org/old-growth-maps.php

Visit the Ancient Forest Alliance website at http://www.ancientforestalliance.org
to see more videos, photo galleries, new stories, and to find out how to can help!

Filmed and edited by TJ Watt

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[GarfoyleZanderfield]

Damn... Big tree. Those cedars can get huge, the swells, and burls just make them look like they could fit into a tolken novel. That's a pretty girl too.

[sectorlearning]

I'm signing the petition now.

[HealthAction]

What beautiful and most important trees. We must save our heritage. Please sign the petition by clicking on the link above.

[LFDEcoFashion]

I have visited Avatar Grove and it is priceless! We must protect our forests today - if we are to enjoy tomorrow!

[TomChudleigh]

Well done! At least we'll have video archives to show our grandchildren.  Wouldn't it be nice to have a government that believed in preserving the real thing?