Photos of Cathedral Grove, MacMillan Provincial Park, and the Proposed Parking Lot

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Endangered elk habitat near the parking lot (right), loggers can't work due to protesters (middle), equipment leaving the grove (right).
  
     
Proposed parking lot boundaries marked (left), MWLAP supervisor declining interviews (middle), equipment leaving the grove (right).
  
     
Logging equipment removed from the park due to protests (left), examples of trees to be cleared for the parking lot (middle), surveyor marking the parking lot and road (right).
 
    
Protesters stop contractors from falling old growth trees (left), giving interviews to the CBC (middle), entrance to the proposed parking lot (right).
 
    
Contractors arriving to start cutting trees (left), peaceful witness protesters standing watch (middle), witnessing contractors placing markers (right).
    
BC Parks Project Manager refusing to give interviews (left), one of the large trees that was to be cut (middle and right).
Photo by: Richard Boyce - richard@boyce.net - http://wemakevideo.com  Photo from Western Canada Wilderness Committee  Photo by: Richard Boyce - richard@boyce.net - http://wemakevideo.com
Dwarfed by the giant old growth in Cathedral Grove (right), elk that use the park as critical winter grounds (middle), and a huge brain mushroom (right).
Photo by: Richard Boyce - richard@boyce.net - http://wemakevideo.com  Photo by: Richard Boyce - richard@boyce.net - http://wemakevideo.com  Photo by: Richard Boyce - richard@boyce.net - http://wemakevideo.com
Some of the abundant wildlife found in Cathedral Grove (left), example of windthrown trees on the edge of clearcuts (middle), and the massive clearcut that acts as a wind tunnel near the park (left).
    
Current parking - no safety hazard to turn into parking (left), blowndown ancient firs in adjacent property (middle and right).
    
How much will you have to pay to visit the park? (left), potential parking area near the existing parking (middle), existing parking (right).
    
Proposed parking lot entrance (left), the real safety issue - slippery boardwalks (middle), more boardwalk (right)
 Photo from Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Existing board walk in the park (left) and part of the resident elk herd taken in early January, 2004 (right). They are on the Cameron River floodplain, about 400 metres upstream from the
parking lot location.
Photo by Ron Smid  Photo by Jim Breingan
One more missing old growth tree (left), and the sacredness of the Cathedral Grove (right).


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