[JonnyQuest]

AE, thanks for enlightening me on Grant Hadwin film. I certainly enjoyed and recommend the book The Golden Spruce. I'd also give a shout out to the book The Tiger, another book by Vaillant. Fascinating read, especially since I was a fan of the 1975 film Dersu Uzala.

[Anne Elk]

^^^ Agreed, JQ. I read "The Tiger" also, after hearing Vaillant speak at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. The director of Hadwin's Judgement did a film on that too, titled "Conflict Tiger", which I haven't seen. I'd like to watch Dersu Uzala again - I saw it during its theater run. Vaillant quotes from Hadwin's missive, "The Judgement", but he didn't include the whole text in the book - and I guess the family has never released it. I like to fantasize that Hadwin indeed faked his death and is still out there somewhere.

[Pyrites]

Using 1% of all B.C. forests as a measurement of lowland old growth forests is not a helpful measurement. British Columbia has huge areas of interior forests that are quite different than the coastal forests. To start with large areas interior forests have enough precipitation to be forested, just. There’s large variation in forest type with latitude. Natural tree cover at Blaine WA is different than that at San Francisco CA. B.C. extends about that distance N & S. If you’re talking lowland coastal forests, use that as baseline. To include forests around Merritt or Alexis Creek or Smithers is just not meaningful. Best.