Heartwood

Dear Community, 

We are excited to share with you our second short film in collaboration with Lauren Wylder. Praise to this woman for her vision and leadership within the directing and editing of this musical journey. We are so grateful to Irth for their beautiful cover of Lost Word Spells song Heartwood.

If you agree that our current logging practices are not sustainable and you wish to see these Ancient Forests protected, please rise.  You CAN make a difference by any of these simple actions. The following resources below are here to help educate yourself on these important matters and also share ways to get involved. 

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The song Heartwood touched each of our heartstrings with the reality of how helpless trees are at the hands of humans and how helpless we humans are in the repercussions of climate disaster without these ancient trees standing.  These rainforests are lungs to the planet and help oxygenate the Earth’s biosphere to sustain life. The cause and effect of our reciprocal relationship is paramount to each of our existence. It is time we truly remember, the Earth is alive, breathing. The land and water keep their health and balance within a delicate balance of many species. Nature is an incredibly intelligent web of interconnections.

Indigenous communities have known and practiced sustainable harmonious harvesting for centuries as a core of their ancient culture and natural law. The ancient wisdom of Indigenous knowledge speaks this truth that forests are intelligent interconnected systems of communication. 

Trees take care of each other through their roots and through fungi networks in the ground. These fragile fungi networks are destroyed through our current clear-cutting practices. Science is just rediscovering the wisdom of these long-lost pathways of communication and our responsibility in the effects we have on these of our current industry, taking too much and devastating the ecosystem itself to recover the damage.

A pioneering forest researcher's memoir describes 'Finding the Mother Tree'

Through the research work of a biologist named Suzanne Simard and her team, they have now proven in the science community what Indigenous wisdom has known and practiced for eons. 

Trees are families and they take care of each other. 

Suzanne Simard’s work speaks of the important role of the mother tree in the forest. Mother Trees are the oldest and largest. They can feed further distances than the younger trees and can cater to each tree's specific needs, just like breast milk does for infants.  The Mother tree doesn't discriminate and feeds all trees no matter what species.

The forest needs these mother trees and the delicate underground fungi systems to be resilient and thrive. When a forest is thriving, it has the capacity of generative self-healing properties, and profound protection from forest fires, diseases, and pests. 

Environmental emergencies are in our midst now. We are facing the unfortunate possibility of more common forest fires happening all the time, along with droughts, and ice caps melting. This evident climate crisis is happening while our logging industry is turning our balanced carbon footprint into a carbon-emitting disaster.

Every time they clear cut, there is a release of what is stored on the forest floor and it is sent out into the atmosphere. It is becoming clear how unsustainable the current forestry industries practices are. The need is for rapid change is critical for our survival. It is bewildering to continue to see our government and industry turn a blind eye to this factual evidence and continue implementing these practices of clear-cut logging.

There are many sustainable solutions that could offer our forests and future generations more potential of longevity with these unique Ancient forests. We are grateful and stand in solidarity with William Jones, Victor Peters, and those in many First Nations who are standing up and asking for LAND BACK rights alongside conservation efforts and healing be at the forefront of money exchange from the government to support the  First Nation communities. These Nations want a moratorium on Old Growth logging,  the care of the forestry industry to be managed by the First Nation union, and sustainable one log practices in a slower approach to industries' excessive hunger for MORE. This new approach will build an economy based on being accountable for how your actions affect others, for what we take/do now will/can have major consequences on the generations to come. 

We encourage you to also look into Suzanne Simard’s project ‘The Mother Tree’ to learn more about how they are working to make systematic change within the logging industry from its ‘path of destruction to a ‘path of care’.

Thank you for your presence and heart in these precious and urgent times. 

Blessed Be, 

Asha & Paula 

Please TAKE ACTION: 

*CALL THESE DECISION-MAKERS

Call Premier Horgan - 1-250-387-1715

Call Minister of Forestry - Katrine Conroy 250 387-6240

Contact Logging Company - Teal Jones 604-587-8700

info@tealjones.com 17897 Triggs Rd. Surrey, BC

MAKE some noise in your local community or MLA’s office.

*Petitions to sign: 

https://act.stand.earth/page/22441/petition/1?gclid=CjwKCAjwz_WGBhA1EiwAUAxIcQPwkKXndzBrK3PUDu9AGUI1iUKrfuSbaIKAIWfl3n04WXVI2BuLmhoCsDAQAvD_BwE

https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/petition/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/sign-petition-protect-bcs-old-growth-rainforests

https://www.change.org/p/john-horgan-end-the-logging-of-british-columbia-s-old-growth-forests

https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/take-action/send-a-message/

*Donate:

Direct Action for Ancient Forest Land Defenders

Donations to Indigenous Land Defenders

Ancient Forest Alliance Donations which will be matched to double

Resource LINKS :: Suzanne Simard - Author of “Finding the Mother Tree”

Information on the Mother Tree project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuupJGko9_0 

Article: Why Mother Trees are critical for the survival of species:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufg2okg9orY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pv

Finding the Mother Tree (about the book):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PvbU6fV8pg

Nature internet: How trees talk to each other in a healthy forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=breDQqrkikM 

Resources links : Indigenous Wisdom

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Statement by  Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit nation  “ In Gitxsan culture, the land is held and taken care of by family groups called wilp or houses. Our house is called the house of Ts’iibasaa. Our goal is to maintain traditional values and protection over the land by preventing any unwanted activity on our territories. We want to be able to continue teaching current and future generations on the land with a hands-on approach.”  and  “In recent years and for some years past, a typical problem for First Nations has been logging companies and mining industries intruding into our territory and extracting resources, backed by the government. These industries try to bend the rules whenever possible. One aspect of this is inadequate or no consultation with any actual hereditary chiefs and landholders.”

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