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Hats off Ken. You explain the difference between old growth and second growth forest so clearly and illustrate the differences with a visual A/B comparison. The facts are the facts and your arguments hold up. I hope many people can see this video and "get the picture." We need to conserve what old growth forest we have left and better manage our second growth forests in Canada.

What the fucj do you people think is going to happen when it’s all gone ?! These rich people need to be over thrown

I do not support any kind of old growth damage OR destruction!!! Please leave native LAND ALONE

I can see he’s compassionate but he says UM a lot

What about the carbon sequestration difference? Old trees are rotting emitting vast amounts of carbon while young vigorously growing trees are storing it and harvesting them secures it. G-l-o-b-a-l w-a-r-m-I-n-g

This deserves more views

We call those second growth forest PINE deserts as nothing lives in there.

I live in the U.S. but I am really happy that organizations such as yours exist to try and help preserve endangered ecosystems in Canada! It is SO IMPORTANT!!!

You are promoting gross misinformation! Go back to china...commie!

Right! A chinese national of a large group lying about the conservatives! You should be ashamed..you should be sued for defamation!

Vote GREEN!! 💚 🌎 💙

That’s wild

But plantations give us better quality and chipper timber.

When you're in an old growth forest you can immediately tell. Its like youre in another world. I travel around the US backpacking and hiking and yea mountain views are cool but nothing beats walking through an old growth forest. It transports you to another time

It’s unnatural.

For anybody not in BC, or who isn't old enough to have experienced BC as it was even a half century ago, it is important to understand just how much change logging practices and other development have induced on the environment. Large-specimen old-growth Douglas Fir and other species that you couldn't wrap your arms around used to be more the norm to experience. It would be easy to just think "trees are trees, what is the difference?" The world just felt different, it really did. You could find odd trials to go hike that most people wouldn't bother with, and be surrounded by this kind of ecosystem. Congratulations on your success with these efforts. Please keep up the good fight.

best video ever

Clear cut forests dry out and erode the duft layer that protects young growth. It catches fire more easily. Trees have relationships with other species too. We need those old relationships to help forests survive.

What about the old growth forests on the interior of BC that have been destroyed by mountain pine bark beetle and burn regularily ? Lodgepole and jackpine grow back thicker than grass in a lawn and eventually self thin. Just because something is left up to nature doesn't mean it automatically has virtue. Just because a human planted the tree it dosen't mean it is bad. Forestry is an ever changing field and I think people that work in that field will find a way, but to demonize an industry that has come a long way is unhelpful .

Eucalyptus jacksonii, or the Red Tingle, is a species endemic to the southwest region of Western Australia. Look into the “Giant Tingle Tree”, found in Walpole-Nornalup National Park. Brilliant example of a tree hollow influenced by wildfires. It has the largest girth of any living eucalypt, 24m. Worth mentioning that in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park is “The Valley of the Giants”, a 600m walkway through the canopy’s of the Tingle / Karri tree forest. The walkway sways with your movement or gusts of winds, which is daunting when you’re 40m off the ground lol. Spectacular views, would recommend to anyone.

Amazing!! Wonderful video, so well spoken and informative ❤

"Here is Canada's biggest hollow tree" "also, we determine this by surveying 1% of Canada's trees"

Epic smoke spot

It's devastating to see those giant tree stumps. Knowing the only reason they've fallen was for financial gain. Do they even use old growth lumber for construction purposes? It would be even more outrageous and wasteful if all that ancient wood wasn't at least saved in structures, but simply milled into pulp to be pressed into wood pellets for burning in a furnace...

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Really glad to hear about this bill and how it will help to protect more natural areas in Canada. Thank you to the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance for your hard work lobbying to get this bill enacted!!

Yes to these truths.

Way to go bro! from Alaska.

Thanks for your work, Ken!

So cool to see the prairies bein talked bout on this channel, thankf for the work yoall do

Your 100% full of SH*T! You will all be locked up one day for aiding and abetting fraud!

Love seeing signs of healthy ecosystems. Like seeing worms here in european wetlands :)

Just adding to the comments, this is a crucial message, keep it going dude🔥

Crazy how different old growth looks on the west coast compared to the east

Protect old growth and stop industrial logging

Soil compaction from heavy equipment is often overlooked too. This can greatly impact seed germination in the seed bank. Once soil is compacted, it takes a very very long time to return to its prior state.

Logging Old Growth forests is a sin, and God is coming for the sinners. Run, sinners, run!

Mmm, Yes! *Its Not a Tree Problem, Its an Ecosystem Problem* Humanity, especially the ones with too much wealth & power seem to have forgotten that were are part if that Ecosystem. 🌎

A farking tree farm is not a forest, and it never will be. When you cut the forest down, it is lost forever.

Why are we using the word Kanaka? That is Hawaiin!

What does a Hawaiin word have to do with BC? Kanaka is a Hawaiin word...

Well its long gone now... not even sure this gentleman seen very many of them standing... what a shame

The big problem facing the environmentalists is the exclusion of "Joe Citizen" from the equation. We are all British Columbians we all succeed with healthy old growth forests. Burt excluding non natives is a mistake! I can not tell you how many times I have been told where to go by my brothers and sisters of our indigenous peoples. It is there land - Period "that is the mistake they make" It belongs to all of us! Let the elders and the indigenous manage it - but make no mistake we ALL own the land!

Why are those 2nd growth forests not managed ... Selective thinning at various stages, species diversity, and low impact harvesting would go a long way to improving the harvests, the yield, and the overall health of the forest and animals who need that eco world for sustainability. The old growth forest you showed had forestry tree stumps - so not a pristine old growth forest.

Biomass Energy needs to stop in B.C... Drax is clear cutting whole forests for biomass wood pellets. Criminal as there is a housing shortage, preventing young couples a home to raise a family in. Uk energy is not worth our future in B.C. and Canada.

Imagine if instead of stupid wars our tax payer dollars went to rewilding, conservation, and ecosystem protection type of classes. That would be free for people to attend.

Losing integrity for short-term Forestry, not very sustainable as demonstrated by the major Stand replacing fires, often Arson caused, racing through such degraded Foorest stands after Modern Forest practices, do not have the thick barked, large tree bole, higher fuel ladders, and Site resilient features of more mature Forest groves and stands. Structurally much less complex, even-aged stands have not been effective in scenarios of hotter, more severe Fires upsetting vast areas that have been clearcut, managed for short term exploitation.

thank you for this beautiful initiative. I hope we are able to reverse the ocean and air damage in time.

This is a fantastic post. Thank you so much for teaching people this information.

This is such a great informative video! Thank you for creating !!