BOO!

It's Haloween, and a lot has happened.

Began the month on Vancouver Island, in the Walbran Rainforest with 500 of my closest frinds for the Tree of Life Celebration. Using a recent Weyerhaeuser clearcut as his 'extreme canvas', artist John Quigley positioned 10 bus loads of men women and children to form a giant tree with the words 'wake up' underneath. Pictures and commentary from the event are at the IMC (2), the TOL website, and at the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.

The whole event was designed to bring together people upset about clear-cut logging on the island--and specifically to shine a spotlight on Weyerhaeuser's destructive forestry. Success on both counts. It was the biggest gathering BCs forest in over a decade.