High elevation Vancouver Island (any place for that matter, but I like high
latitude, high elevation, really neat.  Krumholz vegetation just impresses
me.

Dave, I only get your posts when someone replies to them.

DMc

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:03 AM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hey thanks Dave.
>
> It’s a funny thing, a conflicted thing I guess, about my enjoyment of
> exploring the logged areas. The roads allow us to get to some spectacular
> places, and views. But very much much of the old growth is gone. Now the
> old growth limited to parks, eco reserves, and areas in the north part fo
> the island. Mind you, above a certain elevation it’s still old growth, but
> not big trees that we think of when we say old growth. That elevation
> thing, bit of a controversy as I think that old growth is counted in some
> of the surveys. Gives the wrong impression of things in my opinion.
>
> Not saying the high elevation old growth is worthless, far from it, it’s
> beautiful and ecologically important. But it’s not big timber for big
> logging. I’ve seen some selective logging in higher areas, for yellow
> cedar, quite small cut blocks and helicopter to move log to access road. As
> a side note, one of the types of helicopters used here is the kamov ka32. (
> Link to history page of vih http://www.vih.com/AboutVIH/history.html).
>
> Kamovs still flying around here , Logging and flying over my house :-) ( I
> live near airport where vih based).
>
> Alistair
>
> > On Jul 22, 2020, at 1:40 PM, "ddbjorkman@verizon.net" <
> ddbjorkman@verizon.net wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 8:31 AM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I understand the mailing list is very US centric, but there are other
> >> areas of the world where vans travel under different conditions :-)
> >>
> >> Alistair
> >
> >
> > That's why it is so special and important to have you here Alistair.
> Not to mention you're knowledgeable.   Your outlook has probably formed
> somewhat differently then us lower 48 folks.  Still the bonding power is
> our love and respect for the (sometimes) magnificent vehicles we maintain.
> I'm glad of not only you, but the other Canadian members on the list.
> Diversity and different perspectives is a great thing.
> > Dave B.
> > BTW, is anyone getting this?  second ask
>