VANCOUVER – An environmental group says an 800-year-old red cedar tree has been illegally chopped down in a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island.
Torrance Coste of the Wilderness Committee says the poachers apparently began hacking away at the tree about a year ago and photos show they continued their work until about two weeks ago.
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He says a stump measuring about three metres across is all that remains of the tree.
Coste says no one saw the tree being chopped down or dragged across a parking area, where steel cables were left lying around.
He says funding cuts have left only 10 full-time park rangers to monitor about 1,000 parks and protected areas across B.C.
Blocks of red cedar are valuable as a roofing product.
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