While we tend to only ever think of a Forest for the trees that it contains, these diverse ecosystems are actually intrinsically connected to those that surround it and the rest of the world as a whole, and the connection between Salmon and trees like this Western Redcedar illustrates just that.
Born from these shallow headwaters, Salmon migrate downriver and spend their lives in the oceans, consuming a bounty of food and nutrients bred from all over the world, only to swim back up their home stream where they spawn and die. Here, their carcasses are dragged throughout the forest by other critters that feed on them where they decompose and bring some of that oceanic nitrogen to fertilize the soils here, which in turn help these trees grow big to protect the waters and spawning grounds for generations to come. It’s all connected, and when we alter one, we impact the other - so what kind of world do we want to live in?
Call John Horgan for a moratorium on Old Growth Logging in BC today - 250 387 1715
*note; yes, there are regulations against logging directly next to riparian areas, yet numbers reports, studies, audits, and insider intel shows that these current regulations aren’t large enough to protect these waters, and shockingly, that there is little to no enforcement of these regulations with negligible fines in place, and that many little streams like this are still logged to their banks today.
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Produced & Directed by Ross Reid
~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – Puyallup Nation. ~
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