Manure left outside John Horgan’s constituency office by old-growth logging protesters

A big pile of manure was left outside of Premier John Horgan’s constituency office in Langford Wednesday.

Save Old Growth, which has blocked major highways around Metro Vancouver and parts of Vancouver Island in recent months to speak out against the logging of old-growth forests, also left several signs around the pile.

“John doesn’t give a s*** so we gave him some,” reads one sign, accusing the premier of not caring about B.C.’s old-growth forests.

Save Old Growth says despite “petitions, marches, and letter-writing campaigns to protect old-growth forests,” no action has been taken by the provincial government.

“It’s clear that everyday B.C. citizens must hold the government accountable; we have a moral responsibility to uphold the government’s own promises,” the group said in a statement.

Late last year, the province announced that it was consulting First Nations on deferring the logging of big, ancient, and rare old-growth trees across 26,000 square kilometres of forests in B.C.

The B.C. government says it’s developing, alongside First Nations, a “new approach to sustainable forest management,” noting deferrals are already in place on nearly 1.7 million hectares of old growth.

In April of this year, Horgan said his government’s goal is to combine traditional Indigenous knowledge with developing industry expertise through one of the more sophisticated old-growth strategies ever seen in B.C.

According to Save Old Growth, members are “tired of the Horgan NDP government’s inaction to protect old growth forests, despite the government’s campaign promises to implement all 14 recommendations of the old-growth strategic review panel and a ‘paradigm shift’ for B.C.’s forestry industry to prioritize old growth and ecosystem health.”