Winter time along the coast, but all is not well in the forests.

As winter sets in...the woods and bogs surrounding the outports come alive with human activity. With all the bogs and small rivers running through our back-country frozen for 5 months a year, it's the wintertime that people look forward to for their yearly wood harvesting, cabin-going, and snowmobile riding (our version of getting away from it all).

But there are other things going on out over the bog these days....

There are forestry roads still heading into some of our prime tourist areas, and there are local wanna-be forestry moguls using large machinery to make themselves a few bucks from the waste the large forestry companies are leaving behind. The results of this pillage will be a denuded landscape which is unable to support the local communities that have come to depend on them. Here's a plan by Corner Brook's Kruger to harvest a valley leading into Gros Morne National Park. Who thinks this is a good idea, besides the idiots who dreamed it up? Gros Morne's southern boundary is on the top of the image. You'll see this clearcutting when you head down over the hill towards the Jackladder. It's the first valley you see heading North (where the mountains come into view) and where lots of pictures now get taken.

Time to dump the dinosaurs people.