Ex-logger recalls events of War in the Woods in new memoir

By Elena Rardon
Alberni Valley News
October 23, 2023
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

Thirty years after the War in the Woods in Clayoquot Sound, career tree faller Bruce Hornidge’s memoir of events, Loggerheads, has hit the shelves. …In 1967 Hornidge joined MacMillan Bloedel’s Kennedy Lake logging division at Ucluelet on the west coast of Vancouver Island. He was still working as a logger when the “War in the Woods” hit Clayoquot Sound: a series of blockades and protests against clearcutting that drew worldwide mass media attention. …After more than two decades harvesting, Hornidge says he was “loggershamed” as a “tree-killer” and faced soul-searing losses of identity and livelihood, part of the human fallout of the inevitable move away from a resource-based economy. “My goal was a story that is truthful, personal, and encompasses many of the issues in this complex problem,” Hornidge says.“Three decades after The War of the Woods, we know what happened, and we’ve been told why. There’s a lot we were never told.”

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