Teal Jones has plans for three cut blocks on the southwestern flank of the Fairy Creek Rainforest, just across the ridge from Fairy Creek. This intact slope contains extremely impressive yellow and red cedar forest with trees up to 9 feet thick growing at high elevations. This area is identified as a deferral candidate and as Marbled Murrelet Habitat, however, it remains unprotected. Teal Jones hasn't applied to log this area yet however when they do they are sure to face substantial opposition. These are images of the biggest of those three blocks.
Beyond The 2000 Road (another planned cut block at Fairy Creek)
Lower Fairy Creek (planned cut block)
These are images of a cut block that Teal Jones has planned in the lower reaches of the Fairy Creek watershed. Because of the Fairy Creek blockade and over 1188 people who got arrested logging in this area is currently deferred until 2025.
Beyond The 2000 Road (Planned Teal Jones Cut Blocks At Fairy Creek)
Teal Jones has plans for three cut blocks on the southwestern flank of the Fairy Creek Rainforest, just across the ridge from Fairy Creek. This intact slope contains extremely impressive yellow and red cedar forest with trees up to 9 feet thick growing at high elevations. This area is identified as a deferral candidate and as Marbled Murrelet Habitat, however, it remains unprotected. Teal Jones hasn't applied to log this area yet however when they do they are sure to face substantial opposition.
The 2000 Road #7275 & #7276
The 2000 Road lies just across the ridge from Fairy Creek on the southwestern flank of the old growth rainforest. The area was clear-cut in 2019 and then again in 2021 after dozens of people were arrested trying to stop the logging. The area is incredibly steep and landslides are common on the road.
Teal Jones has decommissioned the road for now however there are 3 cut blocks planned on the next slope over.
Granite Creek Aerial (Spring 2022)
These are images of the eastern edge of the Fairy Creek Rainforest in the Upper Granite Creek watershed including Cut Block #8022, Heli Camp Grove (where Teal Jones holds approval to build logging roads into the forest) and the site where Teal Jones is building a road into cut block #8013 and towards the ridgeline a Fairy Creek. I took these images in the winter of 2022 after hiking up Granite Main in the snow.
Granite Creek #8013
Granite Creek cut block #8013 is on the eastern edge of the Fairy Creek Rainforest wear teal Jones has blasted a road into the old growth forest. Teal Jones has approval to extend this road another kilometer towards the ferry creek Ridgeline. Cut block #8013 hasn't been approved yet but once it is it will be taking the first chunk out of this Ridgeline, situated just above the road to Heli Camp. It will also be logging a couple of remnant sections of old growth up the mountain west of River Camp in two additional units of the cut block.
As of October 2022 this cut block hasn't been logged or approved.
Heli Camp Grove (Granite Creek)
Heli Camp Grove in Granite Creek is one of the richest sections of the Fairy Creek Rainforest. Just across the ridgeline from Fairy Creek and right next to cut block 8022 and the area known as “Heli Camp” this section of at-risk ancient forest is the most intact 4orest east of Fairy Creek. It is separated from Cut block 8022 by an alpine stream and runs as a contiguous forest from Granite Creek to the mountaintop that divides the slope from the Fairy Creek Watershed.
Teal Jones has approval to build a 1 km long section of road into this ancient forest however any attempt to start work on this road approval would almost certainly reignite the war in the woods and the blockades at Fairy Creek.
This area is home to a population of Oldgrowth Specklebelly Lichen, the largest of only 53 documented in British Columbia. Elder Bill Jones of the Pacheedath Nation has called for the protection of this entire area. This area is also home to a massive population of endangered Marbled Murrelet with 115 birds documented nearby. Western Screech Owls have also been documented in this section of Granite Creek (I was lucky enough to document one of them in the middle of Teal Jones’ planned cut block.)
During the height of the Fairy Creek Blockade protesters used this forest as a staging ground for "cops and loggers,” “hide and go creek” and other tactics meant to slow the logging of the neighboring cut block.
