Below is a video clip from a documentary called “Island of the Sea Wolves” exploring how interconnected ocean ecology is to the health of the rainforest on Vancouver Island (and other PNW regions with intact biodiversity). I have explored the other side of the equation touched on in this video clip with regards to how ancient trees in places like Fairy Creek nurture the ocean life (quoted in my article below) well, this connection of wolves, bears (birds of prey) and other predators that carry ocean life into the forest is the completion of that gift circle.

We witnessed signs of the sea wolf (Canis lupus crassodon) den sites, with salmon carcasses in the lower reaches of Fairy Creek (one of the last ancient forest valleys that is intact on the scale of a watershed in southern Canada).

Here where I live in southwestern Ontario (in a similar story to my ancestor’s homelands in Ireland and Scotland) wolves were hunted to extinction over a century ago. The ecological impacts of that arrogant and fearful action on the part of an ecologically illiterate invasive orphaned culture (European statists) have been severe (as now herbivore beings such as deer and rabbits prevent the natural seedling and growth of the next generation of long lived trees, in the few areas where trees are still allowed to naturally grow). So trees are not regenerating, and when they do, the cycle of nutrients enabled by predators and their connection to spawning ocean life like salmon is no longer intact, so the trees only grow to half the size they used to.

Considering that, it was so heartening to know that some of them still provide their sacred gifts to the ecosystem in the southern reaches of the place now known by most as “Canada”.

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Below is a trailer for a documentary showing the wolves I am speaking about : youtube.com/watch?v=ZcJ…

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And this is a link to one of the posts I shared documenting our journey into that valley and attempting to raise awareness about protecting Fairy Creek can be accessed via clicking the quote below