David Radies Saved Ancient Forest

In 2005, a University of Northern British Columbia graduate student named David Radies was conducting random sampling for a lichen diversity study when he found logging tape tied around a red cedar he estimated to be at least 2,000 years old. The tape revealed that he had stumbled upon an ancient inland rainforest scheduled for logging, one of the rare biodiversity pockets covering only about 1% of the Robson Valley. The timber licence no longer covered that particular forest by 2008, sparing it from logging. In 2016, British Columbia protected 11,190 hectares as Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Whudujut Park.

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