The REALITY of Life in Western Canada | Ch6E12

[@AllisonandJamesSailing]

Well written with stunning cinematography, Taryn! Important messaging very beautifully presented💫

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed 😊

[@gregg6282]

Use Hemp to build houses with. That would give the trees a bit of a break

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

Yeah that would def help. There are some places that are starting to really ramp up hemp house production and it’s such a Cool technology

[@PaulHodgson-gm6lg]

the same volume of fiber from a hemp plantation in 2 years as a plantation forest, it also makes better paper than wood.

[@kptbillburkett8735]

It is so nice to 👀 ya'll on the water where ya'll belong. I hope to see 👀 your sails ⛵️ on the Horizon someday from our lanai. I would like to wish ya'll a Very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and Happy New Year 🎉. So until next time, Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii! Aloha and Cheers 🍻 P.S. How has the Boat 🚢 ben performing sents the refit?

[@FlossyRoxx]

I LOVE love love your videos!

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

Thank you! I’m so glad!

[@Okanoggin]

I don't think you have to take a side on this issue at all which is important because we may not wield the saw but we all cut down trees. Fundamentally, we need to understand, accept, and respect the side of effects of our actions around deforestation. The forestry industry became unsustainable, we are down to the last 1% of forests we can call old, and most of it is unproductive. We truly have no grasp of the immensity of this impact and never will but it seems like the absolute bare minimum to me to immediately reverse that trend, make it precisely clear to people in the industry what they can expect over a long period, and allow the industry to continue in a healthy and less chaotic manner than it does today. This is not rocket science. It's earth science, and people should listen to it.

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

I agree. Unfortunately peoples obsession with avoiding change and “negative” emotions until there is no other option often seems to override the logical afforded by science and research

[@kptbillburkett8735]

Hope ya'll are having Very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄. It is Christmas 🎄 day here on the Big Island. And we have had the Best Christmas 🎄! The past 6 days here has ben awesome, With 40 foot waves for surfing 🏄‍♂️ and Pele is giving us a Great lava show. So far the lava has covered over 655 acres of land at Three FEET of lava! So I want to wish ya'll a Very Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and Happy New Year! Hope to see 👀 your sails ⛵️ on the Horizon someday from our lanai! So until next time, Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii! Aloha and Cheers 🍻

[@Andre-yu3qs]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

Thanks for watching!

[@Cacheola]

I worked in forestry automation for a spell. It's upsetting that most of our prime lumber goes to Japan and the US, leaving us with the garbage. The old growth being harvested from our island should be made available to Canadians first, not sold to the highest bidder. Canada failed to manage the beetle kill and logging is essential to remove that fuel. I believe the new growth is more resistant to beetles... do you guys know if the 'new' species of trees has been genetically modified? Love how you respect, honor, and value the area. We'll have to meetup out there this coming year :)

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

Thanks for your response! The trees on the coast that I know the most about aren’t beetle kill trees, but I can’t speak on the rest of the province. And I agree it’s pretty nuts how much foreign markets are prioritized over local ones. It’s a mess.

[@rod8823]

Man-made or not - it's a beautiful part of our world 😊

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

Very true!

[@JosephTabone-j4p]

😍😍😍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

❤️❤️

[@boardbysled]

Lol, there are no genetically modified trees being planted on the West Coast. The biggest issue is there is an extreme demand for wood products, this demand has to come from somewhere. If it doesn't come from the West Coast with the strictest forestry regulations in the world, the demand will just be fed from some other place, likely a third world country with no regulations.

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

If only the fact that logging is happening here stopped it from happening other places… but the reality is that if we have a mentality of growth as our main goal, new markets are constantly created for the resources that are present. It doesn’t become one or the other.

[@davidbamford4721]

In Australia we also have problems with logging of old-growth timber and land clearing. It is a political hot potato.

[@paulgubanyi7142]

I say the worst part is 2 largest timber companies are not even Canadian or American, and huge amount of timber is exported to China and far east as raw timer wo Canadians having to reap any benefit to make $ from it . Wow it show how successful Canada is in selling it homeland for few $$$$ very very sad

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

And the free trade of lumber to the states too… any removal of secondary industries from Canada was a bad plan socially. So many angles to it

[@paulgubanyi7142]

@@WaywardLifeSailing I agree 100% , all the $ and and climate destroying energy to get it over there and back as product make zero sense . For country that have so much cheep clean hydro energy i feel it will not cost much more to produce it in Canada in fist place When anyone from Ministry of forestry in BC have anything to say , all the answers are full of crap, never i did read what they propose as solution to stopping exporting raw logs and propose way to create more jobs in Canada using Canadian lumber. They sound more and more like foreign company's agents. People need to wake up and smell forest

[@WaywardLifeSailing]

@@paulgubanyi7142 yep. I’m just not sure what we can do on a practical front to make change in a positive way when we have these international treaties that sell our logs for so cheap. It’s a complicated mess.