BY JUDITH LAVOIE | VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST | DECEMBER 13, 2009
From 2007: Environmentalist Jessi Junkin in an old growth grove on the Koksilah River surrounded by areas where selected logging was slated to occur. Photograph by: Darren Stone, Times Colonist
VICTORIA — The old-growth forests of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast are Canada’s most valuable weapon in the battle against climate change, but they are being systematically destroyed, says a new report from Sierra Club B.C., to be released Sunday.