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GEOG 1191: Introduction to Human Geography 1: People and the Environment Vancouver Isla nd Red Cedar By The Canadian Press Vancouver Island red cedar: 800 -year -old tree hacked down, says environmental group [Photograph]. (2012, May 17). The Canadian Press. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/17/vancouver -island -red - cedar_n_1525958.html?view=screen . V a n c o u v e r I s la n d R e d C e d a r : 8 0 0 - Y e a r - O ld T r e e H a c k e d D o w n , S a y s E n v i r o n m e n t a l G r o u p ( P H O T O S ) V A N C O U V E R - A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern V ancouver Island, but the culprits w ho repeatedly returned to the site to hack it dow n m ay never be brought to justice. Torrance C oste of the W ilderness C om m ittee said consistent budget cuts over the last decade m ean park rangers rarely m onitor rem ote sites such as the C arm anah-W albran P rovincial P ark, from w here the cedar w as chopped. V IE W M O R E P H O TO S O F TH E TR E E "W hoever's doing this know s that no one's going to have eyes on this park for m onths at a tim e so it's exceptionally easy to do w hat they've done," C oste said Thursday. H e said that last m onth, a m em ber of the environm ental group becam e aw are of the poached tree and took a photo of about 20 per cent of its rem ains. B ut w hen C oste w ent to the park about tw o w eeks ago, m ore of the cedar had been cut and rem oved, he said. "In the first photo, there w ere tw o big sections of the trunk beside the stum p and w hen I w ent up there, there w as only one." H e said a stum p m easuring about three m etres in diam eter is all that rem ains of the tree that w as dragged across a parking area, w here steel cables w ere left lying around. "It's an exam ple of how poorly protected our parks are that people can com e and take our trees, w ithout fear of repercussions, from our provincial parks." C oste said 10 full-tim e park rangers m onitor about 1,000 parks and protected areas across B ritish C olum bia, dow n from about 40 full-tim e positions in 2001. D on C losson, w ho supervises the C ow ichan area for B .C . P arks, said P arks officials at the site a year ago noticed that about 80 per cent of the tree had been cut through and that a professional faller w as hired to bring it dow n because it posed a safety hazard. "O n our return this year w e noticed that som ebody had gone in and cut up a large portion of the butt and dragged portions of it into the parking lot," he said. B locks of red cedar are valuable as a roofing product, C losson said, adding officials have little inform ation in the case. "W e have no eyew itnesses or licence plates at this tim e." R C M P S gt. D ave V oller of the C ow ichan Lake detachm ent, w hich is about a tw o-hour drive from the park, said police are investigating the case of the stolen tree but so far don't have m uch to go on. "There's not m uch w e can investigate since w e have no physical evidence or description of offenders and once w ood is rem oved from the forest, it's extrem ely difficult to track w here it cam e from ," V oller said. "That's one of the logistical problem s w ith having a park that's m iles from anyw here, w ith no one w ho is on site as far as m anagem ent goes," he said. O ne R C M P officer w orks at the D itidaht First N ation reserve, about 45 m inutes from the park, but doesn't have tim e to patrol the area, V oller said. H e said w hoever took the tim e to chop dow n the cedar w as likely interested in the valuable return from cedar shakes used for roofing. "It's obviously m uch m ore gain than going out and taking a w hole pile of firew ood. A logging truck loaded w ith cedar w ould be w orth thousands and thousands of dollars." O pposition N ew D em ocrat M LA S cott Fraser criticized the Liberal governm ent in the legislature for inadequate protection of the province's parks, saying it's obvious people can chop dow n old trees w ithout being detected. February 19, 2014 CP | By The Canadian Press Posted: 05/17/2012 6:57 pm Updated: 05/18/2012 11:52 am "To suggest that anyone is able to protect all of those areas to the level that the m em ber suggests is fiscally irresponsible," said E nvironm ent M inister Terry Lake. "I'll tell you w hat irresponsible is, 10 years ago there w ere 194 park rangers in B ritish C olum bia, there's under 100 now ," Fraser said. Loading Slideshow When