Aspirations of Canadian Justice - Part 2

I'll tell you I was a very happy guy to sign the contract for this commission. And pretty quick was calling a couple of my ‎big strong nephews and their pickup trucks and inviting them to come along with me to look at some big cedar trees. When you go into a forest of big cedars it's really quite an amazing place. We're 180 miles from the west coast and we still get big trees all along the Skeena River. 

This area we went into was old growth that was probably thousand year old trees. And there was a fair bit of them. And the whole place is surrounded by clear cuts. This particular piece of wood came from a tree that was about 7 foot diameter at the bottom. And still that's just a mid-sized tree for the BC coast. This is what they're cutting these giants down right now. It's just nuts! They still want to cut down every tree. 

But we went in there and we found a few trees that I thought would be good. And so then I went to the local chief of that land, the Gitxsan hereditary chief, and talked with him and made a deal with him to buy a tree off him. So we found the tree way up near the tree line. Oh, I was quite surprised‎, you know, high up on the mountain to find such a huge tree. 

And then we had to arrange to get a truck out there to haul this tree and a skidder to get it to the road. And I was there with a bunch of my family to share the excitement ‎of the day. And when everybody was ready, off we went. 

Have you heard part 1?