Canadian music legend Neil Young made a surprise appearance Saturday at an old-growth logging protest rally at the British Columbia legislature.
Young played acoustic guitar and harmonica, and sang two songs: “Comes A Time,” which has a chorus about tall trees, and his hit “Heart of Gold.”
“Thank you Canada,” said Young. “You know I’m only here for those trees up there and it’s a beautiful, and it’s a precious, sacred thing, these old trees because they show us the power of nature when we are being threatened. They show us the past and they show us our future.” Earlier this month, the B.C. government introduced new approaches to manage timber resources to protect more old-growth trees from logging.The old-growth deferral is a government program in B.C. where old-growth areas slated for logging are now deferred until a later date or not logged at all.
Young was introduced by his wife, actress Daryl Hannah, who said the cold weather was giving her a bit of brain freeze.
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