At Resource Works, we are angry about what happened on the Cowichan Lake logging road – and we are saying so plainly. In the early hours of January 1, three pieces of logging equipment were deliberately set on fire along Caycuse Main, near Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island. The damage runs into the millions. Seven workers were laid off immediately. Families lost income overnight. This was not an abstract policy debate. It was a very recent act of arson, carried out days after the holidays, with immediate and personal consequences. And while investigators have not yet determined motive, no one locally was surprised. The Lake Cowichan region has, for years, been a focal point for highly charged old-growth forest activism. That history forms the backdrop against which this attack occurred. Yet as local forestry workers and community members have pointed out, the equipment destroyed in this incident was harvesting second-growth forests, not old growth. That distinction matters.