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Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park is a remote protected rainforest on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island in the ancestral territory of the Ditidaht First Nation. Covering 16,450 hectares, it protects the Carmanah Creek watershed and much of the lower Walbran River drainage, and is renowned for ancient old-growth forest of western redcedar, Douglas-fir, hemlock, and Sitka spruce. The Carmanah Giant, identified as Canada’s tallest tree, stands here. The park’s protection grew out of major old-growth conservation battles in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Indigenous leaders, environmental groups, and other defenders resisted logging, leading to its creation in 1990 and expansion in 1995.
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