Along the crest of Lorden Range, below the timberline to the east of Fang’s Head National Park and Nature Reserve, a crew of loggers was sent to clear the old growth and level the ancient forest flat. Eighty phone calls, thirty town halls, ten protests, and seven years of corporate lobbying (and at least one threat to a notable senator with an obscene fetish), and the Transcontinental Dante-Roeker Logging Company won the permit to reap vast swaths of the oldest yellow cedars in western Canada, if not the oldest in all of North America.