What we lose when the forests burn
Tracking Giants: Big Trees, Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in the Forest.
In 2018, when I set out to visit all of B.C.’s Champion trees – the largest of their species – pilgrimage was once again on my mind. I’d moved back to the West Coast and, burned out from intellectual pursuits, I wanted a project that would frame my hikes and test my mettle in the woods. The Champions, catalogued in theWe needn’t burn carbon to hike the Camino de Santiago, I told myself, when we had world-calibre sites of pilgrimage right here in Canada.
Armed with a spreadsheet of 43 trees and a one-year time frame, I soon learned that looking for Champion trees is like trying to count toddlers in a ball pit. I wasn’t equipped with the wilderness knowledge needed to safely traverse these deep woods, or the ecological know-how to identify the trees in front of me. In the end, I lost my spreadsheet and extended my one-year time frame to my lifetime.
That’s the risk of focusing on a beautiful cathedral – along the way, you miss the graffiti on a crumbling wall. When we zero in on charismatic megaflora, like the Cheewhat Giant or Big Lonely Doug, we satisfy ourselves with less: fewer big trees, less biodiversity.
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