Kiosk gets massage out
For the second summer in a low, visitors travelling Highway 4 from Port Alberni to Pacific Rim Park National Park Reserve and Tofino will know when they enter the Clayoquot Sound ecosystem. The Wilderness Committee information kiosk and huge banners saying Welcome to Clayoquot Sound - Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations Territory and Save Clayoquot Sound - Protect B.C.'s Ancient Rainforest along side the road at Sutton Pass make it unmistakably clear.
WCWC staff and volunteers at the Kiosk are heartened by the supporters-over 3,000 last summer-who stop to buy a poster, take a petition or card to send to Prime Minister Chretien, sign up as a Clayoquot Valley trail volunteer or donate to the Clayoquot campaign. The vast majority of tourists say they're turned off by the horrendous damage already done by clearcut logging visible from the only road into Clayoquot.
Re-opened on June 17, 1994 visitors to the Kiosk already have included a university hiking club, a team of German scientists studying amphibians, families on vacation, local residents and MacMillan Bloedel personnel.
Stumping the world to Save Clayoquot's ancient rainforest
Volunteers extract "Stumpy" from clearcut.
"Stumpy" debuts at B.C. legislature rally.
Nicknamed "Stumpy", WCWC's four-ton, six-foot in diameter redcedar stump has logged over 50,000 kilometres so far on its journeys to raise support for WCWC's Clayoquot campaign, especially the building of its Clayoquot Witness Trail boardwalk. Stumpy even has a passport, issued by Greenpeace U.K. who "adopted" Stumpy for a European tour this Spring.
Last September WCWC extracted Stumpy from a clearcut near the start of its Clayoquot Valley Witness Trail. "When cut down it was still a baby tree, only about 390 years old, but it was all we could haul on the trans-Canada highway," says Adriane Carr, WCWC's Clayoquot campaign coordinator. It took a crew of eight volunteers five days to get the redcedar stump out of the ground and onto a specially built trailer.
Stumpy is due to return to Canada in July of '94. It will resume touring Ontario to increase pressure on the federal government to help resolve the Clayoquot controversy.
