"Guardians of ancient Canadian cedars are divided over the future of logging on their windswept island outpost"

"On a string of wild and rocky islands off northwestern Canada, the Haida people revere the cedars that tower overhead as a nurturing older sister.

For millennia, the trees have given the Indigenous Haida timber to build beamed longhouses, blankets to weather winter, canoes to wend the waterways and shoes to shod their feet.   

In the archipelago's rare, temperate rainforests - some of which are thought to pre-date the last ice age - mammoth red cedars dapple the damp undergrowth far below, land that is rich with huckleberry and ferns and carpeted in luminous moss."

Jack Graham reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation September 18, 2024. [2]