Kayak Magazine February 2021 Retour à l'édition précédente

Not only are there trees almost everywhere you look in Canada, there are also trees everywhere you look in our past. In fact, important Haudenosaunee teachings about Jonrahdesgó:wah, the Great Tree of Peace, go back long before Canada was a country. And of course there are vast parts of our land that don’t have trees and never did.

See history through what might be Canada’s oldest tree in western Alberta. Join a boy as he stands with people protesting the logging of an ancient forest on Vancouver Island in 1993. And as you read, take a moment to think about all the ways you use trees, wood and wood products in your everyday life. How can we protect our forests for the future?