For 20 years, Victoria’s TJ Watt, 39, has trekked through the province’s vast and verdant landscape seeking out giant, old trees to document them and make a case for their conservation.
Now, at a time when exceptionally large trees have dwindled due to logging, he’s recorded what he calls the tree of his lifetime.
“No tree has blown me away more than this one,” he said. “It literally is a wall of wood.”
Watt photographed the tree, a Western red cedar, in 2022 on Flores Island in fabled Clayquot Sound on Ahousaht First Nations territory while on a field trip as a National Geographic and Royal
