Reading of the 'contempt of court' injunction on the bridge over the Walbran, 1991. Thanks to brett for the photo

Logging Tape

Photo of logging tape found in the Walbran Valley close to the Falls on 1st September 2012. Giant Red Cedars waiting in the background ready to be logged.Thanks to Jim for first spotting the tape and passing that information along. Photo by Peter

Images from the reunion 24th july 2011

 Thanks to Jason Miller for passing on some photos he took of the forest during the reunion, they show how we had such great weather. first picture he titled 'Summer light in the Rainforest'. Click on the image to enlarge.

 Second photo is of the slow growing Pacific Yew. 

Third picture is of one of many giant Red Cedars outside the park boundry in the still unprotected area called 'Castle Grove'.

Fourth picture is taken at the waterfalls just above where the West Walbran meets the Walbran Creek. titled 'Falls spherical cavity'.

Fifth picture of a notice of new species research in the canopy of the rainforest.

Sixth picture is of 'fellar buncher' on the road out of the valley, clear-cut logging continues right up to the park boundry.

Cantilever blockade, August 1991. With the donated van with a log over a cliff with a platform and a protester hanging from the end. The story goes that when the loggers first saw this, they went back to their vehicles and came back holding three cards with 10-10-10 written on them, similar to how judges score in gymnastics events. Thanks to Brent for the photo.

Trail Building Crew in the Walbran, Spring 1992.
Can recognize a few faces and the faithful blue van. Thanks to Brett for the photo.

August 1991, lots of police with hefty video cameras, it would be great to get some of the footage. We made a 'Freedom of Information Request' about a year ago for all the RCMP evidence for the three summers in the valley, havent heard anything back yet. thanks to Brett for the picture

Looking up into the canopy of a Sitka spruce, the upper branches covered in a fringe of Licorice Ferns, lichens and mosses. Perfect nesting spots for the endangered Marbled Murrelet, only found in old growth coastal rainforest. Thanks to Rob for the photo

Large Sitka spruce in the Walbran Valley. The Carmanah, the next valley north has the tallest tree in Canada, a spruce measuring over 311 feet (95 meters) high. There are lots over 250 feet in the Walbran. Thanks to rob for the photo

Looking up the Walbran Creek from the bridge, towards where the west Walbran creek joins. Thanks to Rob for the photo

'Stop Clear cuts' carved into the bridge across the Walbran creek, looking a bit weathered after almost twenty years of some of the wettest weather in the world. The coastal rain forest gets over 12 feet of rainfall annually. Thanks to Rob for the photo

Getting close to the mouth of the Walbran after about a two day hike from the bridge. You can see on the massive Cedar log across the creek some drift wood left there by the winter floods that show how high the water gets, that has to be over 25 feet. Not sure how many people have made this hike, beautiful canyon, big trees, and sculpted rocks. August 1999. photo peter

Picture of the first arrest, Faith Macfarlane getting arrested for contempt of court for blockading access into the Walbran Valley. On the 24th july 1991. That could be the date to have a reunion this coming summer, 24th July 2011. Anyone have any opinions on this, a time to camp out and sing a few songs or.....

A few kilometres downstream from Anderson is Foetus lake, a difficult place to hike too but beautiful. again there trees around there are huge. We made it there one summer, the lake was filled with lily pads and the air with dragon flies. Thanks to philip hoen for the photo

An ariel view of Anderson Lake, the spruce and cedar trees there are so huge it makes the lake look small. There is also extensive flood plains around the lake which has caused problems for people camping. The haddon main line was heading towards this before it was stopped. Thanks to philip hoen for the photo.

One of the first kitchens at the blockade just across the bridge and beside the walbran creek. It had to be moved as the creek rose in some heavy summer rain and nearly washed it all away. The organisational structure of the direct action camp was in-powering it was very 'do-it-youself' or ' do-ito-ourselves'. To quote anarchist author Colin Ward " They organise in loosely associated groups which are voluntary, functional, temporary and small. They depend, not on membership cards, votes, a special leadership and a herd of inactive follwers but on small, functional groups which ebb and flow and regroup, according to the task in hand.They are networks, not pyramids". Thanks to Phillip Hoen for the photo

Another view of the log over the cliff blockade. If the log had been just a bit longer it would have been out of reach of the police. Thanks to phillip hoen for the photo.

The remains of the platform after the shit covered tree sitter had escaped, the loggers had cut it into small pieces. Later that year i walked the cut block that he was trying to prevent and we found the stump of a massive Red cedar. We measured it out at over 20' in diameter with about 100 plus rings per foot.

The infamous tree sit, where as the cops and loggers moved in to remove it with a crane, the sitter stripped naked and from his shit bucket scooped out hand fulls and covered himself in his own shit, taunting the cops to now come get him. As they lowered the platform down, he cut his safety line and holding one end jumped of the platform, 30' from the ground swung over the heads of the police and loggers crashed into the trees and took of running eluding pursuit and living to tell the tale. He was quoted as saying ' I used my own personal mountie deterrent'. This tactic caused a lot of debate, most of it negative, it was an extreme thing to do but I walked the clearcut that this platform tried to stop and in it we found a Cedar stump 20' in diameter, counting the rings we worked out it was close to 1200 years old! September 1991.

Road blockade, Walbran valley August 1991;
Dont have any information on this one, if anyone has any info on this picture let me know, thanks

Graffiti on the bridge over the walbran creek. 1991;
The story goes that it was painted at night while an unsuspecting secruity guard walked back and forth on the bridge. The graffitist had to inch out on the lip of the girder unroped thirty feet above the rocks. Its still there just a bit faded. thanks to jason for the picture