Our campaign message was simple: These are Canada’s last large tracts of wild coastal Douglas fir forest which haven’t been converted to urban developments or tree plantations. More than 99 per cent of the ecological zone where these ancient forests once grew has been logged and developed.
The public understood and backed the campaign, contributing more than $1.5 million in individual donations and more than $3 million in regional land acquisition funds – a fund that the public pushed to implement primarily to enable the massive private land purchases required to complete the Sea to Sea vision and protect our regions wild forests and the native species they harbour.