As seen in Mountain Biking Magazine...
By the time this article goes to print, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will have shown the special edit of my segment from Kranked 6, "Trial and Error", to over 100,000 people. In this film I share my instinctual feelings of concern when seeing or thinking about clear cutting a forest.
I often show this video at my school presentations, and while on tour up in Northern BC where forestry supports a large chunk of the population, I began feeling a little sheepish about showing it, as I certainly am no expert on the topic. In the film I reference the particular zone of forest where my trail is built, "this is one of the last remaining sections of mid elevation old growth on the BC coast, and it's slated for clear cut." Then one of the analogies I make in the film is that "it seems to me that clear cutting is exactly like a crash, and they've done it time and time again, and perhaps haven't learned from their mistakes." I didn't want to insult those in BC that base their livelihood on the industry and give them a bad reputation from my generalizing statements. Perhaps they have learned, and perhaps there are some ecologically sound logging practices in effect.
I needed to find out some more information, so while up in Northern BC....Click here for the complete article
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