Hazel Volk
@hazelvolk.bsky.social
Author & Facilitator • Citizen-led Conservation • Moonrise & Wildlife Photographer • Digital Comms Witch • Bilingual Content Creator 🇫🇷 • INFJ 🏳️🌈 • Rooted in B.C. (K’ómoks Territory) 🇨🇦 • Exploring Gaulish and ancestral ways of relating to the Living World.
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Tsitika Mountain’s ancient forest faces auction by BC Timber Sales. #Clearcut already scars the #ecological reserve where live 300+ marbled #murrelets, a #threatened species.
📅 Nov 18 - ALL OUT to HOLD THE GOVT ACCOUNTABLE.
Victoria: 11 AM, BCTS offices, Capital Park.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social
📅 Nov 18 - ALL OUT to HOLD THE GOVT ACCOUNTABLE.
Victoria: 11 AM, BCTS offices, Capital Park.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Tsitika Mountain’s ancient forest faces auction by BC Timber Sales. #Clearcut already scars the #ecological reserve where live 300+ marbled #murrelets, a #threatened species.
📅 Nov 18 - ALL OUT to HOLD THE GOVT ACCOUNTABLE.
Victoria: 11 AM, BCTS offices, Capital Park.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social
📅 Nov 18 - ALL OUT to HOLD THE GOVT ACCOUNTABLE.
Victoria: 11 AM, BCTS offices, Capital Park.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social
J-1 - I’m honoured to be part of the Ancestral Arts Online Festival, hosted by the wonderful Antje Howard (Neuro Art Project); I’ll share a session, from my own journey and the practical offerings that guide my work, on November 1st.
Join us for free !
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Ancestral Arts Festival 2025
hosted by Antje Howard
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October 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
J-1 - I’m honoured to be part of the Ancestral Arts Online Festival, hosted by the wonderful Antje Howard (Neuro Art Project); I’ll share a session, from my own journey and the practical offerings that guide my work, on November 1st.
Join us for free !
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Share widely!
Join us for free !
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Share widely!
Reposted by Hazel Volk
TAKE ACTION NOW.
DEMAND A HALT TO THE AUCTION OF TA1375 to @rparmarbc.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social
Contact Ravi Parmar: 250 387-624, [email protected] & David Eby [email protected]
#Tsitika #oldgrowth #bcpoli @ancientforestbc.bsky.social #clearcut #logging
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DEMAND A HALT TO THE AUCTION OF TA1375 to @rparmarbc.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social
Contact Ravi Parmar: 250 387-624, [email protected] & David Eby [email protected]
#Tsitika #oldgrowth #bcpoli @ancientforestbc.bsky.social #clearcut #logging
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October 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
TAKE ACTION NOW.
DEMAND A HALT TO THE AUCTION OF TA1375 to @rparmarbc.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social
Contact Ravi Parmar: 250 387-624, [email protected] & David Eby [email protected]
#Tsitika #oldgrowth #bcpoli @ancientforestbc.bsky.social #clearcut #logging
Images:oldgrowthaction
DEMAND A HALT TO THE AUCTION OF TA1375 to @rparmarbc.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social
Contact Ravi Parmar: 250 387-624, [email protected] & David Eby [email protected]
#Tsitika #oldgrowth #bcpoli @ancientforestbc.bsky.social #clearcut #logging
Images:oldgrowthaction
Appeasement is a #nervous-system response to power imbalance, compliance for survival when resistance feels unsafe. It’s collective, adaptive, and costly. Regulation helps us endure, but only dismantling oppressive #systems brings real safety and liberation.
#opression #trauma #marginalization
#opression #trauma #marginalization
Hazel Volk (@hazelvolk)
For those working with the nervous system or vagus nerve, we’re familiar with these responses:
• Fight – Mobilizing energy to confront or overpower a perceived threat.
• Flight – Using energy to esc...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Appeasement is a #nervous-system response to power imbalance, compliance for survival when resistance feels unsafe. It’s collective, adaptive, and costly. Regulation helps us endure, but only dismantling oppressive #systems brings real safety and liberation.
#opression #trauma #marginalization
#opression #trauma #marginalization
Honoured to walk among thousand-year giants. Soil rich from millennia of decay and renewal; thick moss and lichen drape the trunks; fallen logs shelter species. 98% of #forests like this have been logged and shipped away in 100 years of #colonization on Vancouver Island.
#oldgrowths #bcpoli
#oldgrowths #bcpoli
October 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Honoured to walk among thousand-year giants. Soil rich from millennia of decay and renewal; thick moss and lichen drape the trunks; fallen logs shelter species. 98% of #forests like this have been logged and shipped away in 100 years of #colonization on Vancouver Island.
#oldgrowths #bcpoli
#oldgrowths #bcpoli
Feeling vulnerable sharing this: I wrote about land-exploitation as ongoing #colonization, grief, accountability, and the urge to re-member our relationship with the Earth...
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
Ongoing Colonization: Land Exploitation & Complicity
How extraction continues colonization and why we must confront our complicity.
hazelvolk.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Feeling vulnerable sharing this: I wrote about land-exploitation as ongoing #colonization, grief, accountability, and the urge to re-member our relationship with the Earth...
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
#landjustice #landrights #conservation #uprootedculture #roots #decolonization #animism
Three weeks into Social Media Lead at Watershed Sentinel, I reported from the #Walbran blockade. My first piece is live. Would love your read & share. To the Walbran blockaders, standing strong like cedars, your courage is living hope. Thank you.💚
October 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Three weeks into Social Media Lead at Watershed Sentinel, I reported from the #Walbran blockade. My first piece is live. Would love your read & share. To the Walbran blockaders, standing strong like cedars, your courage is living hope. Thank you.💚
Reposted by Hazel Volk
They know enforcement will come, and still, they stand.
Meet the defenders of Vancouver Island’s last ancient forests. Read our #Walbran piece on courage, community, hope.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social @wildernews.bsky.social
#OldGrowth #BCForests #FairyCreek #bcpoli
Meet the defenders of Vancouver Island’s last ancient forests. Read our #Walbran piece on courage, community, hope.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social @wildernews.bsky.social
#OldGrowth #BCForests #FairyCreek #bcpoli
Where Hope Takes Root | Watershed Sentinel
Blockaders in B.C.’s Walbran Valley stand against old-growth logging, defending life, community, and the forests that sustain us all.
watershedsentinel.ca
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
They know enforcement will come, and still, they stand.
Meet the defenders of Vancouver Island’s last ancient forests. Read our #Walbran piece on courage, community, hope.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social @wildernews.bsky.social
#OldGrowth #BCForests #FairyCreek #bcpoli
Meet the defenders of Vancouver Island’s last ancient forests. Read our #Walbran piece on courage, community, hope.
@ancientforestbc.bsky.social @wildernews.bsky.social
#OldGrowth #BCForests #FairyCreek #bcpoli
Reposted by Hazel Volk
Read our latest piece by Odette Auger on Peehee Mu’huh, sacred land at risk from a mine now under construction bit.ly/ThackerPass. Watch & share the film by @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, @therealnews.com and indiginews.com. Get the Mag in your mailbox. bit.ly/WS-store
#IndigenousRights #ThackerPass
#IndigenousRights #ThackerPass
(FULL FILM) Mining the Sacred: Indigenous nations fight lithium gold rush at Thacker Pass
YouTube video by Ricochet Media
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October 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Read our latest piece by Odette Auger on Peehee Mu’huh, sacred land at risk from a mine now under construction bit.ly/ThackerPass. Watch & share the film by @ricochetmedia.bsky.social, @therealnews.com and indiginews.com. Get the Mag in your mailbox. bit.ly/WS-store
#IndigenousRights #ThackerPass
#IndigenousRights #ThackerPass
Everywhere on Earth, we’re fighting to protect our only home. In the Walbran Valley, people are holding the line against old-growth logging: cedars, salmon, water, climate. This isn’t just about trees; it’s about life. Every forest needs defenders.
#ProtectOldGrowth #Walbran #ClimateJustice
#ProtectOldGrowth #Walbran #ClimateJustice
Redirecting...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Everywhere on Earth, we’re fighting to protect our only home. In the Walbran Valley, people are holding the line against old-growth logging: cedars, salmon, water, climate. This isn’t just about trees; it’s about life. Every forest needs defenders.
#ProtectOldGrowth #Walbran #ClimateJustice
#ProtectOldGrowth #Walbran #ClimateJustice
Good news! State of Salmon 🐟 shows Chinook & coho on East Vancouver Island well above average. Huge thanks to local streamkeepers, watershed groups & First Nations Guardians. Since 2021, the @psfca.bsky.social invested $2.3M in habitat restoration.
#Salmon #BritishColumbia #Yukon #Chinook #Coho
#Salmon #BritishColumbia #Yukon #Chinook #Coho
State of Salmon Report - Pacific Salmon Foundation
A broad-scale evaluation of the state of all six species of Pacific salmon found in British Columbia and the Yukon, including Chinook, chum, coho, pink, sockeye, and steelhead.
stateofsalmon.psf.ca
September 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Good news! State of Salmon 🐟 shows Chinook & coho on East Vancouver Island well above average. Huge thanks to local streamkeepers, watershed groups & First Nations Guardians. Since 2021, the @psfca.bsky.social invested $2.3M in habitat restoration.
#Salmon #BritishColumbia #Yukon #Chinook #Coho
#Salmon #BritishColumbia #Yukon #Chinook #Coho
Menhirs, cèdres, fontaines, saumon : une même conversation à travers les continents. Si vous vous faisiez silencieux·se, que dirait votre territoire ? Voici mon dernier article, de la France à l’île de Vancouver. Lisez et dites-moi ce que vous entendez !
#animisme #lieu #souricer #france #gaule
#animisme #lieu #souricer #france #gaule
L’âme d’un lieu
Écouter le monde ici et là : registres distincts, un chant commun.
hazelmarievolk.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Menhirs, cedars, pilgrim paths, salmon runs; one conversation across continents. If you got quiet today, what would your place say? I wrote about listening to land and lineage from France to Vancouver Island. Read & tell me what you hear !
#Land #Animism #Celts #Earth #Energies #Dowsing #France
#Land #Animism #Celts #Earth #Energies #Dowsing #France
Listening to the Souls of Place
Teachings from here and there; different textures, one continuum.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Elders beyond humans
I didn’t grow up with reliable elders, so I turned to the land.
The forest, the stars, the owl at night, the rhythm of the sea,
they’ve become my teachers.
The land is our oldest ancestor. The stars are our kin.
When we listen, their wisdom awakens within us....
I didn’t grow up with reliable elders, so I turned to the land.
The forest, the stars, the owl at night, the rhythm of the sea,
they’ve become my teachers.
The land is our oldest ancestor. The stars are our kin.
When we listen, their wisdom awakens within us....
Hazel Volk (@hazelvolk)
Elders beyond humans
Who do we turn to for wisdom?
I didn’t grow up around emotionally reliable adults to lean on. Almost by instinct, I sought out older friends, sometimes decades ahead of me, who ...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Elders beyond humans
I didn’t grow up with reliable elders, so I turned to the land.
The forest, the stars, the owl at night, the rhythm of the sea,
they’ve become my teachers.
The land is our oldest ancestor. The stars are our kin.
When we listen, their wisdom awakens within us....
I didn’t grow up with reliable elders, so I turned to the land.
The forest, the stars, the owl at night, the rhythm of the sea,
they’ve become my teachers.
The land is our oldest ancestor. The stars are our kin.
When we listen, their wisdom awakens within us....
The Gift of Stillness
By the sea at sunset, the sky turns pink and pearl. Distant snowy peaks reflect in the still tide. Otters tumble, fish leap, a seal exhales, a hummingbird hovers like a prayer.
Stillness holds me. Life gathers here, playful, sacred and whole.
#wildlife #otter #canada
By the sea at sunset, the sky turns pink and pearl. Distant snowy peaks reflect in the still tide. Otters tumble, fish leap, a seal exhales, a hummingbird hovers like a prayer.
Stillness holds me. Life gathers here, playful, sacred and whole.
#wildlife #otter #canada
May 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Eco-anxiety - and even #burnout - is a summons to remember. To feel deeply. To realign with what truly matters. To return to ourselves. Beyond forest walks, #eco-anxiety beckons us to awaken to something far more ancient: the reclamation of our #ancestral #kinship with the living world.
Beyond the Surface: Ecoanxiety at Its Root
Remembering our place, role, and responsibility in the web of life amid ecological grief.
hazelvolk.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Eco-anxiety - and even #burnout - is a summons to remember. To feel deeply. To realign with what truly matters. To return to ourselves. Beyond forest walks, #eco-anxiety beckons us to awaken to something far more ancient: the reclamation of our #ancestral #kinship with the living world.
Prolonged Grief #Disorder is now a thing—a category to be treated and medicalized. But what if #grief, #anxiety, and #depression aren’t disorders, but #natural responses to a world stripped of connection, #ritual, and #community? What is the cost of reducing them to mere labels?
Grieving in a fragmented world: How modern culture fails to hold our pain
As I slowly emerge from the most devastating year of my life, I find myself diving deeper into my grief, held by the land, my people, and the conscious presence of my ancestors within and around me.
hazelvolk.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Prolonged Grief #Disorder is now a thing—a category to be treated and medicalized. But what if #grief, #anxiety, and #depression aren’t disorders, but #natural responses to a world stripped of connection, #ritual, and #community? What is the cost of reducing them to mere labels?
La psychologie occidentale échoue à voir les racines systémiques de notre souffrance. Comment être "sain" dans un monde en perdition ? Plutôt que d’affronter ces crises, nous anesthésions, diagnostiquons, médicamentons. Comme si de rien n’était, pour rester productifs !
#deuil #guérison #systemique
#deuil #guérison #systemique
Traverser le deuil dans un monde brisé : Réapprendre à accueillir la peine
Alors que j'émerge lentement de l'année la plus dévastatrice de ma vie, je plonge plus profondément dans mon deuil, portée par la terre, ma communauté et la présence consciente de mes ancêtres en moi ...
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April 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
La psychologie occidentale échoue à voir les racines systémiques de notre souffrance. Comment être "sain" dans un monde en perdition ? Plutôt que d’affronter ces crises, nous anesthésions, diagnostiquons, médicamentons. Comme si de rien n’était, pour rester productifs !
#deuil #guérison #systemique
#deuil #guérison #systemique
Our connection to our ancestors became an intellectual construct rather than a lived experience... The visceral, breathing, reciprocal relationship has been thinned to a mere echo. And in this thinning, we reinforce the very illusion that keeps us unmoored: the belief in our separability.
#healing
#healing
In Our Bones: Ancestral Healing as Re-membering
There is a quiet ache in the modern world, a longing that tugs at the edge of our collective consciousness.
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March 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Our connection to our ancestors became an intellectual construct rather than a lived experience... The visceral, breathing, reciprocal relationship has been thinned to a mere echo. And in this thinning, we reinforce the very illusion that keeps us unmoored: the belief in our separability.
#healing
#healing
Relocalizing is not just logistical shift but a return to ancestral wisdom—honoring the land, restoring balance, and fostering resilience. By acting locally while thinking globally, we weave regenerative models that uplift communities, inspire, and co-create a thriving future. Also in 🇫🇷
Our Territories, Our Future: Relocalizing to Regenerate
Recent global events, particularly the trade policies introduced by President Trump in the United States, have underscored the urgent need to rethink our economic models.
hazelvolk.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Relocalizing is not just logistical shift but a return to ancestral wisdom—honoring the land, restoring balance, and fostering resilience. By acting locally while thinking globally, we weave regenerative models that uplift communities, inspire, and co-create a thriving future. Also in 🇫🇷
As our civilization faces increasing systemic collapse, it may be those who have retained their ability to perceive complexity who will offer the wisdom needed to navigate what lies ahead.
The Coming Collapse: Sensitivity Will Determine Survival
The Biology of Sensitivity
open.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As our civilization faces increasing systemic collapse, it may be those who have retained their ability to perceive complexity who will offer the wisdom needed to navigate what lies ahead.
Solving the climate change and biodiversity crises needs bold, local #solutions for real impact. One Earth’s database highlights projects from our global partners in three areas: renewable energy, nature #conservation, and regenerative #agriculture.
Together, we can solve the climate crisis | One Earth
One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.
www.oneearth.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Solving the climate change and biodiversity crises needs bold, local #solutions for real impact. One Earth’s database highlights projects from our global partners in three areas: renewable energy, nature #conservation, and regenerative #agriculture.
Prioritizing extraction and unsustainable industries, wrecking the planet for profit—who cares, as long as a few cash in? Our Alice Springs-based environmental group, protecting the Australian desert for 40+ years, just lost its funding. One more decision among millions to keep destroying #Earth.
ALEC defunded by CLP government
The Arid Lands Environment Centre is a strong and trusted voice for the conservation and responsible management of the land, water and natural resources of Central Australia.
www.alec.org.au
February 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Prioritizing extraction and unsustainable industries, wrecking the planet for profit—who cares, as long as a few cash in? Our Alice Springs-based environmental group, protecting the Australian desert for 40+ years, just lost its funding. One more decision among millions to keep destroying #Earth.