Last Stand: Saving the Elwha River's Legacy Forests

[@partypreet]

What a beautiful forest and great community!

[@tiasilvasy3819]

I really liked the footage and the people featured in this documentary. Thanks for bringing this topic of protecting our legacy forests some light.

[@jamesblake7338]

Wow! What a wonderful film and such an important fight! ❤❤❤

[@georgewhitehouse8630]

Your video was so beautiful thank goodness for your victory. Thank you for offering this to medical.

[@gup8175]

“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” - Chief Seattle Tears of sorrow for the clear cut scars and tears of joy for the small victories. Thanks for the film.

[@ritamariekelley4077]

Chief Seattle was brilliant.

[@ronward3949]

Big leaf maples, Acer macrophyllum , such a place, save and let the forest growing old, as the ecosystem adapts naturally back to its roots!

[@hannahapricoteckberg2091]

An amazing film. Really shows the importance of preserving what forests are left! Thank you for making this and thank you for your work to defend the forests!

[@marksando3082]

When I lived in the Puget Sound area, I spent so much time hiking around the Elwha and was so excited to see the dams finally come down. It is disgusting and enraging that the DNR is still trying to sell off legacy forests, especially around the Elwha after finally winning the battle to get the dams removed. Good work, but I don't doubt that you'll face many more tough battles to save these forests in the years ahead.

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Those trees were logged before the dams were built, you need to move back to where you came from and get out.

[@pmw9988]

Amazing film! Thank you.

[@shawnbryant60]

The connection between the earth and man must be preserved more, lots more! I will see what I can do to help and help protect against the greed of the loggers.

[@sophiareygrace6656]

I CANT BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT LET THE RAINFOREST BE CUT DOWN FOR TIMBER!! THATS SO DISGUSTING

[@BelovedfriendLSB]

I wouldnt be surprised if the feds never really authorized those dams in the first place and that might bee why they were also removed again

[@jeffmicka6912]

Imagine what's in store for the forests and all natural places with this upcoming Trump administration!!!

[@jameslasswell5821]

Sad. They log our rivers in Oregon and it’s not ethical. Save the salmon and steelhead and restore quickly. In 10 years you’ll be able to get some piece back

[@edabbey1798]

great video

[@hudson8865]

Thank you very much.

[@rikhuizing]

Great mini documentary👌

[@lailakhan5907]

Thank you 💖

[@papabear1417]

Powerful film. The pursuit of money is killing the Earth. We have to live at one with Mother Earth not kill her as said in the film "Death by a thousand cuts"

[@rolandhicks1874]

It’s called regulation. But now trump will deregulate even more to reward his timber lobbies. Get ready

[@balanceheadwear1190]

🙏🙏🙏🍀🌿

[@BelovedfriendLSB]

these videos folks are just made to raise awareness as to the ongoing need to be attentive to environmental needs and its why wheee DEW have to mandate population and resource controls on ourselves as well as restoration and recovery - I've been out to the pacific northwest a couple years ago and there IS cutting that gross and rather ugly because it IS rather sloppy but its because of the terrain its EXTREMELY difficult to navigate with machinery and it IS controlled they do it in sections over the years so that nature has a chance to regrow new trees back in cleared areas

[@randykilmer]

I have worked in clearcuts in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska for both the US Forest Service and our own forestry contracting company,. I have seen the devastation the logging has done. I also have caught commercial fishing boats illegal fishing. Some formerly salmon bearing streams were washed down to bare rock from the loss of trees. Some slopes were so steep we could not replant trees on them. A comment below mentions about for people living in cities that it is easy to condemn logging. The film is about rural residents and native tribes not urban folk. I now live in a city, grew up rural and lived in remote Alaska. I have seen much damage from logging and agriculture too. The people in the film don't want to stop all logging, if someone does they are hypocritical as they most assuredly use paper. Logging just has to be done in a responsible manner and this is not.

[@user-mi3pv7ql4g]

Only CASH matters. Companies are citizens they are the only citizens that matter. DNR members on the take, taking the lead of the bought off supreme court. Above the laws.

[@shanechostetler9997]

I think maybe the Tribe on the Elwah should invest 15% of their casino profits to buy all of the watershed of the river.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

It should be illegal to cut down lowland rainforest

[@yellowpoppy253]

The trees may grow back, but the vital aspects of the forest are mostly destroyed all the way down through the soil. The food forest (the understory of flowers, berries, seeds, nuts, foliage) is gone. Nothing to support the pollinators/birds/ mammals/amphibians. Habitat desertification is what happens with clear cutting.

[@BrianDoherty-e8s]

It is ease for urban people to condemn logging when they have nice office jobs or have their head in the tax trough with government "work." If these people are really concerned about water quality for the river and Port Angeles residents they should hammer away at DNR to close the illegal gun range on Little River that has dumped tons of lead into the valley year after year. The forests grow back, the lead shot all across Little River valley can never be recovered.

[@randykilmer]

Che illegal gun range on Little River is not exclusive to saving the legacy forests in the Elwha watershed.

[@Anhorish]

90% of the profits from the timber industry are from taxpayers. You can harvest a mature tree for the price of a cheeseburger and remove it on taxpayer built roads whose amortization is spread over centuries. Welfare and tax gimmicks for the rich..

[@rolandhicks1874]

Conservative greed rednecks coalition to trash the forests. My group. Lol

[@Heavilymoderated]

Should be building out of stone and concrete, or hemp bales or whatever. Enough of using wood already. With the climate changing, trees are more valuable standing in a forest. I’m just so sick of people who are more concerned with destroying for profit rather than protecting what we have left.

[@johnhobbs7697]

Selective cut not clear cut also stop selling raw logs out of the area keep local Timber companies in business let them sell processed wood

[@ChristopherJackson-t1r]

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[@frankblangeard8865]

Salmon return to where they were born. But no salmon were born above the dams which were on the Elwa. So why would salmon go there now?

[@randykilmer]

Rivers originalyhad no salmon after the glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago. Salmon found the rivers. Also not 100% of the salmon retrun to the same river. Some find other rivers and some are finding the Elwha.

[@Andy-zj3dc]

mycelium will bring it back.

[@SpecialSP]

The Kaiapo People in Brazil may lose a significant part of their lands. Brazil is building SIXTY dams on the Amazon for electricity. I don't know if anyone connected to this video can help, but … maybe someone can ? edit: with teats in my eyes, I just got to the about Brazil. Am I talking about the same thing? 𝗔'𝗵𝗼 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗸𝘂𝘆𝗲 𝗢𝘆𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻