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Logging was threatening a cherished sockeye salmon stream, Owossitsa Creek, at the north end of Nootka Island, where Western Forest Products was cutting.

The Pioneer Square Habitat Beach, dreamed up about a decade ago, is a 200-foot-long stretch of sand, rocks and native plants and shrubs like Nootka rose and dunegrass.

On Nootka Island, areas of uncut forest show the abundance that was.

He wrote: "King George's Sound was the appellation given by the Commodore to this inlet, on our first arrival; but he was afterwards informed that the natives called it Nootka."

The logs are covered in mulch, on which crews planted more than 30,000 native plants, shrubs and trees: Nootka rose, snowberry, cottonwoods, Lyngbye’s sedge, beach grass.