'War in the woods': activists blockade Vancouver Island in bid to save ancient trees

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. One of the big problems is, it is not "forests" that they replant.

They are tree farms, and are usually a monoculture, or very close to it. Forests left entirely to Nature will eventually become a Douglas Fir forest, given enough time. They are vigourous, growing tall enough to shade smaller species, and extraordinarily adapted to surviving a fire - thick bark, and in the case of an old tree, its lowest branch may be 50 feet off the ground.

And, of course, no matter what, it might be that our grandchildren's grandchildren won't live to see even a reasonably mature specimen.