Tag Archives: MacMillan Bloedel

Animals, Environment, History

How People’s Attitudes Towards Nature Changed

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What was life like in the era before cell phones, computers and televisions. Did British Columbians feel closer to nature when they worked outside in the elements rather than within the artificial confines of a building? In this mornings program I ask Mike Manson, a descendant of one of Cortes Island’s oldest European families, and Mike Moore, one of our better known eco-tour guides, how public attitudes towards nature changed since the first settlers arrived.

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History, Tourism

How Chemainus Transformed Itself

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By Roy L Hales

Everyone was talking about the murals, when they were first unveiled. Thirty-seven years later, the image of three proud First Nations faces comes to many people’s minds when they hear the name Chemainus. Municipalities throughout British Columbia embraced this former logging town as a model for how communities can be reinvented after their principal industry collapses. There are still hundreds of thousands of visitors coming to see this Vancouver Island town every year.  I recently dropped in to see how how Chemainus Transformed itself.

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Parks

Whaletown Commons Became a Park

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There was a celebration on Cortes Island a little more than a week ago. Close to a hundred people came out in the rain to munch on some of the goodies and listen to some of the community’s elders. After more than a quarter of a century, Whaletown Commons became a park.

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Arts, Forests, Indigenous Nations

The Klahoose First Nation & Origins of Cortes Community Forest

Originally published on Heartwood, Field Notes

Their plan is to net out of the equation sensitive ecosystems, riparian zones, areas with very thin soils, and groves of old growth—and do selective, ecosystem-based forestry on what remains of the land base.

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Forests

The Seeds of Heartwood: Forest Guardians of Cortes Island

There is a special feeling that you get when you walk through an ancient forest. You feel surrounded by something more ancient and mysterious than the oldest tree in the forest.

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