People of all ages and backgrounds took their protest to the premier鈥檚 doorstep.

Several hundred people gathered outside Premier John Horgan鈥檚 constituency office in Langford Friday to decry the provincial government鈥檚 decision to allow the logging of old-growth trees at Fairy Creek. The group later marched along Goldstream Avenue to the West Shore RCMP detachment, with many people in vehicles along the way honking and waving in support.

Many seniors and children, some carrying signs, joined protesters from Trees for Tomorrow, a youth-led organization, and climate activists with Our Earth Our Future in listening to speakers and drumming dedicated to protecting old-growth forests.

Brentwood Bay resident Lachlan Palmer carried a cut from a tree at Bugaboo Creek that bore the message, 鈥渢his tree should be living.鈥�

Palmer, a pipe-fitter by trade, said he would have liked to have joined the protest in Port Renfrew today but his schedule wouldn鈥檛 allow that.

鈥淭he trees are worth more standing,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a beautiful area, and it鈥檚 also very important to local First Nations. We鈥檙e not anti-industry or against logging. There are lots of trees on the Island that can be logged. We鈥檙e just asking that they protect the old-growth trees in an intact watershed, the last of its kind.鈥�

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