Typical early morning at the end of winter on Vancouver Island: snow on top of mountains, lingering clouds over the valleys and the cool air is reviving.

#MountainMonday #photography #nature #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada

A beautiful moss covered Western red #cedar #tree - still unprotected.
Only a human, with a compromised & unwell soul, would be OK killing an elder tree this magnificent. Some things are just plain wrong.

These ancient old growth trees are essential to fighting accelerated #ClimateChange. #OldGrowth ecosystems in our coastal temperate rainforests supports much biodiverse lifeforms. The naturally moist environment helps to lower impacts of wildfires & other natural disasters that have increased as our governments continue to fund & enable more ecocidal projects.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #nature #WorldInMyEyes #SaveOldGrowth #TreesOverGreed #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #ProtectForests #ecological #arbor #bark #mosstodon #forest #Cowichan #TreeTuesday #Degrowth

#SelfPortrait with ancient elder yellow #cedar #tree. I have a longtime deep connection with #OldGrowth #forests & have spent decades of activism work to try to save & protect them from ecocidal monsters.

How we think about nature, how we treat wild living ecosystems, speaks volumes on our personal character. If we become too disconnected from wild nature, we will turn into demons who destroy our natural life forces.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #SaveOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #VancouverIsland

#BloomScrolling - Hardhack (Spiraea douglasii) photographed last summer on Vancouver Island. So many pretty wildflowers on this land.

#wildflowers #photography #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #VancouverIslandWildlife #nature

Frost in the hollows

'Farbe: Weiß' #FotoVorschlag
#photography #RoadTrip #VancouverIsland

Hello! My name is Aaron. I’m a professional paramedic and nurse with a passion for nature and photography.

Im new here on Pixelfed but I’m looking forward to connecting with you all here.

My first image is a special one for me - taken during a midnight walk along a beach in Tofino with my wife and daughter as the Milky Way arced overhead.

#photography #astrophotography #milkyway #tofino #vancouverisland #canada

#hiking a drier path, going north on west coast trail, #VancouverIsland

#FootPathFriday #photography

#ParadiseMeadows in #StrathconaPark on #MountWashington is a gorgeous #WinterWonderland at this time of year. Very peaceful environment.

#VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #Westcoast #Canada #Snow #Winter #nature #ParadiseMeadows #creek #trees #BeautifulDay #photography #landscape #VancouverIsland #ComoxValley

Dead #trees are not wasted timber dollars - they are sources of food for literally thousands of beings in a #forest #ecosystem, from tiny microscopic beings to insectivorous birds. Standing dead trees are known as snags, while a fallen dead trees are nurse logs. A cut or natural stump can serve the same #ecological function as a #NurseStump.

Nature wastes nothing. If there is a nutrient source to be had, there is a being to benefit from it. Nurse logs, standing snags & nurse stumps play hosts to all sorts of mosses, lichens, fungi, insects & arthropods, many hidden deep inside, as well as other living beings that prey on them.

Nurse #stumps are still deeply rooted; new plant, tree & fungi life grows out of their tops. Nurse stumps & dead stumps that have no new growth atop are like anchor systems for living trees growing in forests. You destabilize the ecosystem when you remove them from their natural #environment.

#NaturalistNotes #Educational #VancouverIsland #nature #wilderness #GetOutside #photography #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Cascadia #VanIsle #mosstodon #Wsanec #CommunityForest #ForestStewardship #ForestProtection #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #YYJ #ProtectTrees #SaveForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BCForestryReform #Degrowth

We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

#SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activists #monochrome #BCForestryReform #Cascadia #HelpMotherNature #StopKillingForests #Ecocide #SaveOurForests #ClimateINACTION #MonochromeMonday

My frontlines interview with Donna Clark from #XRVancouver has finally uploaded.

I talk about why I'm at the blockades. I talk about the ecocide on my family's matriarch homelands. I talk about the devastating & longterm effects of the US invasion on Vietnam. I talk about how we need to protect/study/find more ancient forest medicines. I talk about colonialism & brutalities. I talk about my amazing resilient villager relations. I talk about how ecocide destroyed my matriarch village ways of life.

I also bring up the sellouts.

We were carpet bombed by #USA #racist terrorists. Fact.

Please take the time to listen to what I have to say. Thank you for those who care enough to listen to me & why I keep fighting for a better world - for all of us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-EscumG-g

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #AsianMastodon #TootSEA #ExtinctionRebellion

#RainbowNation #Resistance.

With #SisterFriends at frontlines. Warrior POC women against ongoing colonial ecocide. I had not slept for 3 days & had not bathed in 8 days at that time. I was chaining myself to bridge & other infrastructure for over a week. I had experienced over 50 RCMP CIRG raids by this time & refused to stop fighting back. We, war survivors, do not back down from colonial forces easily.

2021, from the frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #Frontliners #Solidarity #Decolonize

#MatWright FROM #NANAIMO does not like when POC women say our experiences are very different from his privileged white man experiences. Why the left loses is because of bigots like this guy who pretends to be an inclusive humanitarian.

But is OK sending me this in DM.

#VancouverIsland

FYI - reference to why I'm posting this:
https://beige.party/@PhoenixSerenity/113411677437684589