A brief history of ecosystem disturbance by humans on Quadra Island

IN EARLY 2019, someone poaching old-growth from TFL 47 felled a 269-year-old Douglas fir just off the Granite Bay Road. A DIMP field team came across the butt end and photographed it before it was removed by the surreptitious faller. The life of this middle-aged tree, which was 8.4-feet in circumference (2.8 feet in diameter), spanned more than the entire history of European discovery and settlement of the Discovery Islands.

Click on any line of text to learn why that period of time is directly relevant to the current ecological health of Quadra Island.