Living Forest Communities
The world needs a free-market model for large scale forest conservation.
We think this is it!

Create a conservation community.

Become the guardians of the forest!!
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Living Forest Communities I just came back from presenting at Business for Good, a conference at Regent College in Vancouver. There was a lot of interest around what we are doing on Vancouver Island, a lot of questions about sustainable forestry as an example of stewardship of the land.

Source: conferences.regent-college.edu
This is a conference designed for new entrepreneurs wanting to apply their faith to a start up business; or seasoned entrepreneurs wanting to experiment by applying their faith in existing businesses. ...
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Living Forest Communities We were so pleased to have almost 60 people at the Priority Reception. See my blog about it.

http://www.livingforestcommunities.com/elkington_forest_blog/

Source: www.livingforestcommunities.com
Living Forest Communities is a community development model that accomplishes two goals. Primarily, we wish to establish and maintain sustainable natural forest ecosystems in perpetuity through land conservation and ecosystem-based forestry. ...
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General Message to anyone interested in Living Forest Communities. We are having a Priority Reception at the Coast Harbourside Hotel in Victoria, Oct 27th, at 5:30 pm. See attachment for details.

This is for especially important for anyone thinking of buying a home at Elkington Forest. Please come and learn about the th...ree densely clustered hamlets of beautiful homes surrounded by 850 acres of protected mature forest. There will only be 77 homes in the full 1000 acre site.Read More

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Living Forest Communities is hosting a panel at Gaining Ground Summit in Vancouver, tomorrow Oct 20th, 2:30 pm, with Peter Mortifee of the Trust for Sustainable Forestry, Jens Weiting of Sierra Club and Jan Garnett of the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Doug Makaroff is also speaking for 10 minutes on thursday morning Oct... 22, at 11:05 am - as a brief summary of this alternative model to deforestation and forest degradation. See you there!Read More

Source: www.gaininggroundsummit.org
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Living Forest Communities In August 09, I went up to Cortes to see the Everwoods site again and spend time with Ann Mortifee, Paul Horn, Peter Mortifee, and Patricia King-Davies,

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Living Forest Communities We have Site Tours happening tomorrow afternoon, and again Saturday afternoon. If you want to book a time to see the wonderful side of the Malahat give us a call.

September 3 at 1:48pm
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Living Forest Communities Here's the article.

Source: www.vancouversun.com
"I do this overlay and it's on a 20-foot screen and people cannot believe the amount of timber that's been taken out of the south Shawnigan watershed," the Victoria developer says.
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Living Forest Communities Here is the Vancouver Sun article about Elkington Forest. It is a great article, except the sub-headline wrongly states that the property is on Shawnigan Lake, rather than Shawnigan Creek.

June 28 at 12:36pm
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Living Forest Communities Come tour Elkington Forest with Doug Makaroff!
Check out the link for details:
http://www.livingforestcommunities.com/elkington/pdfs/elkington_forest_fridays.pdf

What are you doing in the office on a beautiful Friday afternoon?
Time:1:00PM Friday, June 5th
Location:Elkington Forest
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Living Forest Communities This is great news. We were selected as "Sustainability Leaders" in Epoch Times, See page 6 in the bottom right hand corner.

http://bit.ly/pqzon

Source: bit.ly
Please note that this server only hosts the archived PDF files from July 2007. For the older PDF files, please visit our old print archive server.
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Living Forest Communities We hike through mature forests, sit beneath 600 year old Doug Firs, view Shawnigan Lake from the Ridge View Hamlet, and envision a conservation community that is crucial to the saving of the forest. See invite.
http://www.livingforestcommunities.com/elkington/pdfs/elkington_forest_fridays.pdf

Special Guest - Brandy Gallagher & OUR Ecovillage
Time:1:00PM Friday, May 29th
Location:Elkington Forest
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because its the best way to see Elkington Forest
Time:1:00PM Friday, May 8th
Location:Elkington Forest
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Living Forest Communities Here are photos from some of the recent site visits

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Living Forest Communities Here are photos from some of the recent site visits

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