Heartwood director Dan Pierce wrote an in-depth piece for The Narwhal tracing the evolution of B.C.’s forest industry over the past 25 years – from the mass protests of Clayoquot Sound in 1993 to the current state of B.C.’s forests and forest industry today.
“When 12,000 people showed up on the remote coast of Vancouver Island in the summer of 1993 for the Clayoquot Sound blockades, history was in the making.
It was one of the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in Canadian history, with almost 1,000 people arrested in what would become known as the War in the Woods. The arrests of youth and elders were seen on television screens and in newspapers around the world.”