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With the industrial extermination of the lucrative intact forests of Washington State, "Hoo Hoos" (a club for American lumbermen founded in Seattle in 1909) began buying up Vancouver Island. By the 1950s the industrial plundering of BC's forests was consolidated in "Ruination Companies," namely transnational forest destruction corporations which call the shots and are eagerly served by their government handmaidens. To keep their dirty business hidden from public scrutiny and critique, the devious ruination companies routinely "re-brand" and change their names. Spewing Greenwash and stock market hype, they continue their wanton destruction of our vanishing forests and biodiversity.

Ainsworth Lumber — BC Forest Products — Canfor — Fibremax Timber — Fletcher Challenge — Hayes Forest Service — International Forest Products (Interfor) — Island Timberlands — MacMillan Bloedel — Pope & Talbot — Slocan Forest Products — Teal Jones — TimberWest — West Fraser — Western Forest Products (WFP) — Weyerhaeuser — etc.

Interfor Massacre Nuxalk/Heiltsuk Land	Stumping for Canfor BC Government	TimberWest Vandalism Pacheedaht Land	Tree Farm Degradation Pacheedaht Land
Big Tree Kill Off Nitinaht Land		Stumping for Hayes BC Government	Forest Land Sell Off Fibremax Timber

One does not have to go far in BC to see the results of the many decades of deforestation schemes by government and industry. Greenwash cannot hide the tragic loss of the ancient temperate rainforest due to commercial greed run rampant and shortsightedness. After more than a decade of controversy, Ecologically Based Management (EBM) was supposed to have begun in the Great Bear Rainforest on 31 March 2009 when the BC government and industry grabbed headlines. But forest activist Ingmar Lee says that around Bella Bella everyone knows "There won't be any EBM for at least another year because it has to be filed in this year's logging plans." Meanwhile, he says, the logging companies continue to clearcut as voraciously as ever "tearing apart valley bottom riparian ecosystems to rip out the profitable big old cedar."

Some Government Schemes 1947 – Tree Farm Licences (TFLs) 1950 – Timber Supply Areas (TSAs) 1992 – Forest Revitalisation Initiative 1996 – Forest Renewal BC 1998 – BC Assets and Land Corp 1999 – Tenure Reallocation 2002 – Forest Practices Code 2002 – Variable Retention 2002 – Special Management Zone (SMZ)	Right: "Timber is a Crop"              MacMillan Bloedel Tree Farm, 1947              Franklin Division, Vancouver Island 2003 – BC Timber Sales (BCTS) 2003 – Forestry Innovation Investment (FII) 2004 – Forest & Range Practice Act 2004 – Working Forest 2005 – Private Forestlands Act 2006 – Ecologically Based Management (EBM) 2009 – Commercial Forests
Some Collaboration Schemes BC Forest Information BC Forest Products Canadian Sustainable Forestry (CSF) Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Canadian Wood Council Canadian Wood Export Program Coast Forest Conservation Initiative Forum for Research and Extension in              Natural Resources (FORREX) Forest Stewartship Council (FSC)	Right: "Forest Management"              H. R. MacMillan Export, 1950              Nanaimo River, Vancouver Island Forestry Innovation Investment Forintek Canada Great Bear Rainforest Greenspirit Natural Resource Canada Pacific Forest Centre Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Wood Promotion Network

SMZ Clearcut Vancouver Island	SFI Clearcut Vancouver Island	Pulp Mill Poisoning Vancouver Island	Weyerhaeuser Warfare Vancouver Island
Errington Cedar Mill Vancouver Island	Rainforest Clearcutting Vancouver Island		Raw Logs Export Vancouver Island

Crooked cronies are prevalent in colonial societies. They are unscrupulous figures in government and industry who use their leadership positions for personal gain, exchanging favours in making quasi legal fortunes from land grabs and resource extraction. Their eradication of the ancient trees and primaeval forests is to the detriment of First Nations and, ultimately, of all inhabitants of British Columbia. At the top of the long list of colonial oppressors is Trutch, a racist and a crook who committed untold damage to First Nations by stealing over 90 percent of the land deeded them by the first governor of the colony. Indigenous land owners in BC have never been recognized by the forest industry which plots with its government cronies, greasing all hands but those of most Natives.

English Colony Grabber Joseph Trutch	Scottish Coal Digger Robert Dunsmuir	German Lumber Leech Frederick Weyerhaeuser	Canadian Wood Worm Harvey MacMillan
Eco - Judas Patrick Moore	Ms Collaboration Linda Coady	BC's Drunken Driver Gordon Campbell	Perfidious 'Ally' of Indians Mike de Young

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