Arriving at a campground between the towns of Tofino and Ucluelet, Uncle Weed sets out to explore the west coast’s unique environment and offer discourse on natural resource-based and tourism-based economies starting with recollections from the noted logging protests in the early 1990s with comments about blockade logistics from early morning pick-up trucks rides to posting bail to jangling guitars.
Downcast podload: Musings from Clayoquot Sound – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 1/9 – 17:04
Note: Audio updated from original version (removed dead air at end of clip)
Music
Theme: Bex – Lonesome Traveler
Interlude: William Whitmore Elliott – Sometimes our dreams float like anchors
Seque: Wm. Lenker – Guitar ramble
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Your input on this topic is invited – particularly if you participated in the protests or traveled to this area. Consider leaving a comment and/or recording an audio missive of your own to use in a future episode. Let me know where you stashed your blockade memories or other rainforest thoughts by emailing: choogleon (at) uncleweed (dot) net or via Twitter @choogleon and/or @uncleweed, etc.
Background
This is Part 1 of 9 (or more) in the Rainforest Dispatches series on Choogle On with Uncle Weed a series of explorations and soliloquies from the Clayoquot Sound area on the west coast of Vancouver Island during a summertime water outage in the midst of a temperate rainforest. While figuring out what happened, Uncle Weed recollects the tense logging blockades in early 1990s and compares current conditions through lens of deep ecology and sustainable development practices.
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Rainforest Dispatches series – Choogle On with Uncle Weed
Forests and Oceans Without End – Postcard # 60
Hitch a Thousand Miles to See a Friend – Postcard #56
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I use Koss stereophones, MAudio Microtrack recorder & Solo interface and Sony mic – just saying.
