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Old-Growth Under Threat | Schmidt Creek, Vancouver Island
BC Timber Sales is targeting some of the last old-growth rainforest on eastern Vancouver Island. Recently Heartwood director Dan Pierce took a flight in a small Cessna over the Schmidt Creek valley on Vancouver Island, one of the last old-growth rainforests left on the eastern part of the island. This[…]
Heartwood mini-doc | Chapter 2: Cut & Run
The Industrial Model – forest liquidation, log exports, job losses, mill-closures and political cash. Chapter 2 of the Heartwood mini-doc explores BC’s unique blend of of industrial forest liquidation, industry deregulation, job losses in the tens of thousands, massive increase in raw log exports, rapid closure of sawmills, and copious[…]
Heartwood mini-doc | Chapter 1: Mining for Old-Growth
How Vancouver Island lost 90% of it’s prime old-growth temperate rainforest. In Part 1 of this new 3-part mini-series, we explore the endangered old-growth forests of Vancouver Island. Despite the reality that less than 10% of the prime, low-elevation old-growth remains on the island, these forests continue to be converted[…]
Heartwood: A West Coast Forestry Documentree
We’ve got another big release today! Here is the brand new trailer for Heartwood: A West Coast Forestry Documentree. Featuring almost four years worth of footage, stunning aerials by my brother Andrew Pierce, an original score by Max and Ben Ulis, trumpet by Jack Garton, colour grade by Eliot Z Galan[…]
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HEARTWOOD Website Launches!
The new website for “Heartwood: Forest Guardians of Cortes Island” is up and running at www.heartwoodfilm.com. The Heartwood team will be heading up to Cortes Island in a few weeks to continue filming, where he will be releasing some new videos in the very near future. So stay dialed in to heartwoodfilm.com,[…]