In 1985, a small but resolute group of Haida elders joined the front lines to fight clearcutting on Lyell Island.
This episode of Ghost Towns of Canada explores Depot Harbour, Ontario which was built by Canadian lumber giant John Rudolphus Booth as a terminus for his private rail line that transported timber and linked grains farmers in the west to ports on the Atlantic.
This classic documentary from the 1970s tells the off-beat story of an itinerant group of tree planters in the wilds of northern British Columbia. Musicians, ex-loggers, environmentalists and a mime artist all come together for this uplifting film.
A team of Canadian silviculture experts and Costa Rican researchers collaborate on a privately funded reforestation project in Costa Rica.
Fury for the Sound: The Women at Clayoquot reveals the important role of women in establishing grassroots social movements like the one to protest clearcut logging in Clayoquot Sound on Canada's West Coast.
Fury for the Sound: The Women at Clayoquot reveals the important role of women in establishing grassroots social movements like the one to protest clearcut logging in Clayoquot Sound on Canada's West Coast.
Documentary follows the bizarre saga of eccentric and passionate citizens who stand against gravity, decay and bureaucracy in order to save a thousand-year-old cedar tree from annihilation.
This episode of Ghost Towns of Canada explores Ocean Falls, British Columbia. Ocean Falls was one of the province's best known pulp and paper towns until the mill was closed by the provincial governmet in the early 1980s due to the waning economy.
This documentary looks at the Walbran Valley on southern Vancouver Island, home of one of British Columbia's last ancient temperate rain forests, and follows the actions of protesters who are fighting to save it from logging.
This episode of Ghost Towns of Canada explores Val Jalbert, Québec, a prosperous mill town in the 1920s that would lose its fortune with the eventual shift in the industry.