To get the full impact of logging, you need to rise above it all. That plane could be helping to save your backwoods stomping grounds from the chainsaws. Private pilots, mostly from the Northwest, are volunteering their time, fuel, and planes to fly industry and Canadian government policymakers over Vancouver Island, a forested jewel off the British Columbia coast. Passengers are shocked to see that decisions made from behind desks can wreak such environmental havoc, says Edward May of Friends of Clayoquot Sound, the flyover organizer. A CEO from a paper manufacturer might stop buying old-growth products as a result.
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