Wildwood Ecoforest gains nearly 9 hectares of ‘untouched’ land

Wildwood Ecoforest gains nearly 9 hectares of ‘untouched’ land

Barry Gates, former chair of the Ecoforestry Institute Society, measures an old growth Douglas fir on an 8.5-hectare parcel of land that was reunited last week with the Wildwood Ecoforest thanks to a successful fundraising campaign. Photo courtesy of Kathy Code Last week, the Wildwood Ecoforest, located in Yellow Point just north of Ladysmith, got considerably closer to its original size. A successful campaign to raise $850,000 has allowed the E…