On October 19th, 2019, a group of residents on the Sunshine Coast gathered in Clack Creek Forest — a beloved local forest scheduled for logging this year — to attach 1000 hearts to the trees, as an expression of how much love we have for this place and the value it holds for our COMMUNITY.

Living Forest Institute: Summer 2019 Program

Coast Reporter Podcast: Logging and Landfills

‘Stand with Clack Creek’ Gathering

Our ‘Stanley Park’

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Clack Creek in the News

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LOCAL WEEKLY: Loggers cut trees with hearts
LOCAL WEEKLY: Loggers cut trees with hearts

Logging in the Mt. Elphinstone Park expansion area has begun with road clearing in “The Forest with a 1,000 Hearts”, aka the Clack Creek Forest. This BC Timber Sales Blk A93884 has been deferred for over six years, as the original engineering of the block contained several problems admitted by BCTS…

MACLEAN'S: A Heartfelt Protest in B.C.'s Clack Creek Forest
MACLEAN'S: A Heartfelt Protest in B.C.'s Clack Creek Forest

Bright spots of colour dot Clack Creek Forest on the Sunshine Coast in B.C. The felt hearts affixed to the trees are visually striking symbols of protest as the area awaits the axe—quite literally. Logging rights to the forest were auctioned off to Squamish, B.C.-based Black Mount Logging in May 2019…

THE NARWHAL: ‘We’ve been cheated’: Sunshine Coast community braces for logging of forest at heart of park proposal
THE NARWHAL: ‘We’ve been cheated’: Sunshine Coast community braces for logging of forest at heart of park proposal

If you were to take a walk through the Clack Creek forest, a 24-hectare hotbed of biodiversity criss-crossed by well-used trails, you’d find more than 1,000 felted hearts stapled to the bark of towering trees. The hearts are meant to symbolize the hope of the local community that Clack Creek will remain…

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