The West Coast Trail Rainforest

The old growth forest adjacent to the internationally famous West Coast Lifesaving Trail section of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is the last large fragment of ancient temperate rainforest remaining on southern Vancouver Island. Over the last century, hundreds of watersheds on Vancouver Island have been clearcut logged - stripped of their natural forests and converted into forest fibre-farm plantations.

In 1994 the upper Carmanah Valley and lower Walbran Valley was included in an enlarged Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park. See our History and Achievements page. But much more needs to be protected in this land of big trees.

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