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Alex Haraus, Denver, CO (2026)

03/02/2026

Moments from our second trail cleanup as the 🎆

Such a life giving day. We can’t believe that…

- 65 people showed up to help
- We collected over 1,070 pounds of trash: more than half a ton!
- Folks of all ages came to help, from kids to grandparents, and some people brought their whole families
- Incredible, life giving conversations were had by all
- The and both threw in people and resources to make this SO much easier logistically than it was the first time

Could never have guessed that, less than a year after and I sat down last March and said we just wanted to make something to do good in a tough time, over 265 people have come together for environmental stewardship in different towns across Colorado.

Our next cleanup is March 28th! If you’re in CO, follow to stay in the loop on what time and where exactly it will be when we lock the details. All are always welcome and we can’t wait to do more good with you.

It’s a brutal moment in history, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop gathering. In fact, it’s all the more important to join hands and do good for our communities to make them more resilient. The conversations and friendships that happen at these are always some of my favorites of every month, so no matter who you are or where you come from, pop in and meet some folks at one of our upcoming events. No doubt it’ll be fun :) Thanks to everyone who joined this time; see you at the next one!

02/24/2026

You inspire us ❤️ Over 11,000 people went to send letters to protect old growth forests on the Pacheedaht First Nation’s homelands in about a week. Incredible work - now, we wait for the government’s decision. You can call the Premier and let him know your thoughts at 250-387-1715; just know it will be an international call if you live outside Canada, so you may have to pay depending on where you live, how you call and what your phone plan looks like. Feel free to use the letter writing instructions at the link in my bio to help frame what you say when you call. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch some of our earlier videos.

Follow to stay in the loop, thank you to for the spectacular footage, , .tessier and for showing us around and an enormous thank you to everyone working to help save this special place. Onward together.

02/21/2026

Some of the biggest trees on Earth hide here on Vancouver Island, so over 4,000 people have gone to send letters to protect its old growth rainforests from being cut down.

The individual trees can be over 1,000 years old, but antique yellow cedar forests in their entirety are a special class of forest dating back to the last Ice Age that can be over 11,000 years old. They’re very rare, breathtakingly beautiful and hold the precious kind of deep, complex biodiversity only millennia can develop.

Vancouver Island is claimed by the Canadian province of British Columbia despite having land unceded by local First Nations. “Unceded” means no treaty was ever signed to hand the land over to British Columbia or Canada. The land in this video, cut and uncut, is the unceded ancestral homeland of the Pacheedaht First Nation.

Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones, a former logger turned advocate, smiled and welcomed us to see his home. I wanted to see what was happening here because I’d seen clear cuts on public land in the States and heard they were worse on Canadian public land, due to the Canadian government’s refusal to improve their version of the Endangered Species Act, the “Species At Risk Act,” which our government in the US is trying to get rid of. It felt like a good time to gather, learn and rise together as people of all 3 nations - Pacheedaht First Nation, Canada and the USA - around the story of those trying to protect the old growth forests in and around the Fairy Creek Watershed.

57% of the lumber from British Columbia is exported to the USA, often for luxury home sidings. That means the body of the massive cedar tree seen lying on the mountainside in this video has high odds of ending up as shingles in the USA, along with the rest of the trees in this video.

The British Columbian government opened a public comment period asking if they should clear cut the intact old growth forest at the start of this video. It’s open to international participation, meaning anyone on Earth can share their thoughts, and closes Feb 22, 2026. It takes less than 10 minutes and instructions on how to send yours are at the link in my bio.

02/19/2026

Wait for the drop… We have 3 days to save old growth forests like this in British Columbia, Canada. Thank you to the over 2,000 people who have written in to save forests like this from more clear cutting.

Solène and others with the Fairy Creek Blockade attempted to prevent this particular clear cut from happening before the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested those who stood in the way for protecting the land. 57% of the softwood lumber exported from British Columbia goes to the US.

Laws like the Endangered Species Act down here in the States make it harder to do such intense logging in public land down here; there are still workarounds, but it happens less. Allowing extraction like this is the reason our current admin wants to get rid of environmental laws. So instead of just not doing it, we import wood with the same moral bankruptcy from Canada. It’s used for things like shingles and shakes for luxury houses - totally unnecessary.

This land is also the unceded ancestral homelands of the Pacheedaht First Nation. That means they never signed a treaty handing this land over to British Columbia, yet BC acts like they can do whatever they want; and the Pacheedaht have very limited options outside of allowing it to happen.

Another Canadian told Aidin and I that she was threatened to be shøt by the police when she was in a tree to keep it from falling, and she was ultimately arr3sted. We can’t blame anyone besides the oppressor for any of this happening, and we have the opportunity to change things by coming together.

British Columbia has a public comment period open right now asking if they should clear cut another old growth forest nearby in a similar fashion, and it’s open to international comment. That means you can write in to help save the forest no matter what country you live in. Thank you to the over 2,000 Canadians and Americans who have come together to write in - so awesome to see the international solidarity.

You can learn more by watching our other videos, and instructions on how to help are at the link in my bio - it takes less than 10 minutes!

02/19/2026

These old growth cedar forests are some of the oldest on Earth, and we can save them from clear cutting by sending as many letters as we can at the link in my bio.

I know realities like this can feel overwhelming, but you aren’t in this alone. You have agency, and I figured it might help to all have a moment where we talk about things in the rainforest together.

57% of the softwood lumber from this province of Canada, British Columbia, gets exported to the USA, and the province just opened a public comment period open to international participants. That means anyone on Earth, can share our thoughts and tell them whether or not we want these forests cut down for mostly luxury home materials.

There’s a lot of magic to be found in rainy moments - feel it all, watch my other videos to learn more about this and let me know if you have any questions. Thank you to the nearly 1,000 people who have gone to send their letters, and to you for always watching the full video before commenting 🫂❤️‍🔥

02/18/2026

I sincerely wish you experience magic like this 🌧️ We have until 2/22/2026 to submit public comments to save this forest, tucked away in a region where 57% of the softwood lumber is exported to the United States. The instructions to send your letter will be in my bio until then 🫡 All love to the incredible people of Canada and thank you to Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones and those at Fairy Creek for welcoming me so warmly. Hoping this brings our peoples together ❤️

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02/17/2026

We have 5 days to save this forest - in both the US & Canada, road paths on public land get aimed through big trees as part of logging projects for different reasons. In the U.S., it’s because the trees are subject to weaker protections as part of a “road building” project than they are as part of a logging project. In Canada, it’s because trees cut down as part of “road building” don’t have to be paid for. Slightly different reasons with the same result.

The forest in this video is in the traditional homelands of the Pacheedaht First Nation, unceded to the Canadian province of British Columbia, where 57% of the softwood lumber is exported here to the United States. Both our countries play a role in the fate of this forest, and BC just opened a comment period open to international participation until February 22, 2026. That means all of us can write in, and the more who write in, the better. Find instructions on how to send your letter at the link in my bio!

02/16/2026

First time finding dynamite parts on a hike 🧨 This old growth forest will be cut if we don’t send letters to save it. Send your letter to help save this place at the link in my bio, details in my last video .haraus

02/14/2026

What can we learn from Canada? 🤔 We have until 2/22/2026 to submit public comments; link will be in my bio until then 🫡 All love to the incredible people of Canada, hoping this brings our countries together ❤️ Thank you to Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones and those at Fairy Creek for welcoming me so warmly, and Robbins and for the footage. You can follow what’s happening on the ground at .

The report I show for a sec in the video is a good, easy-to-read-but-kinda-old report on Canada’s Species At Risk Act. For more up-to-date reviews of the SARA, you can read the “Horizontal Evaluation of the Species at Risk Program” report by the Government of Canada from January 2025 and “Opportunities and limitations of Canada’s Species At Risk Act for protecting Pacific salmonids: lessons learned from the case of the Thompson River steelhead” by Jeanson, Young, Bennett and Cooke, published August 6, 2025

01/19/2026

Mindblown by how much trash we picked up in 4h

Thanks to everyone who came out 🤘🏻 Follow us for the next one 🔥🚮🔥

01/15/2026

Especially if you’re white. RIP Renee Good - my condolences to her family and every family who has suffered amidst policies and behavior like this in our country for centuries. Videos like the one we saw have been seen regularly by people of color for ages. I don’t want to encourage anyone to see more heinous realities online; but if you aren’t used to stories like this being against people who look like us, it’s because they often aren’t. But the reality is that the capitalist system doesn’t care about any of us. That’s why organizing and working with each other is so important.

To anyone feeling heightened by what’s been happening in our country for years and the admin’s brazen encouragement of it, you’re not alone. Do what you need to move through any fear you might be feeling and stand stronger with your community against behavior like this. Know there are organizers who have sat with horrible realities like these for years and are used to confronting them. Each in our own ways, we’re with you. If this is the first time you’re realizing how dire the need for change is, welcome to the crew. Your differences are celebrated strengths. Use ‘em to do some good.

If you want to take things a step further, you can join your local 🧊 watch/rapid response network on Signal. Not every state or community has one, but it’s worth looking for it. Most start at a state level, then they vet you to make sure you’re legit. In Colorado, you can start at coloradorapidresponsenetwork dot com.

If you’re in Minnesota, my heart is so with you. If you’re outside the country, thank you for your solidarity. The push for a healthier world is a global effort and it’s easy to feel like things are backsliding all over; but most people want to move forward together, which is all the more reason to stand together and keep the gears from turning back as much as we possibly can. I’ll keep defending nature, environmental justice, public health and building community togetherness and steadiness however I can. Whatever you choose to keep going on, know you aren’t doing it alone.

With fierce love,
Alex

12/23/2025

What more can we do to bring people together? 🤔

A few friends made the to bring people together around the outdoors when it feels more needed than ever. It’s been a dream of .haraus and to bring people camping for their first time; when they and were about the idea, they teamed up to get grants and make an outdoor activity that needs a lot of up-front gear and knowledge as accessible as possible through Camp Together Colorado.

About 50 people came together to camp, hike, sing around a campfire with local musicians and and attend presentations the creators put on about how to advocate for nature in their communities. The sessions took up about 5 hours, and all of them had nearly 100% attendance. We’re all passionate about protecting the outdoors 💪🏻

During the last session, we asked who considered themselves an advocate. About half of the pavilion raised their hand. By the end of the session, everyone raised their hand, and we celebrated with a final campfire before heading out into the world the next day.

Thank you to the CCC creators, guest speakers and , and for the grants they provided to put the event on, for tech, for ground support & for getting so many of us there and back. Bus To Show’s mission is to safely transport people to & from events (usually concerts) to make sure everyone stays safe & has a great time while reducing group fuel consumption. We’re grateful they helped us bring people camping for the first time - consider riding with ‘em the next time you want to see a show at Red Rocks!

We’re excited for another year of gathering in the outdoors to get more people involved in environmental protection in our state - if you didn’t make it to an event this year, come next year! If you did, thanks for being part of the CCC family. It’s been awesome to see y’all continue to organize in the community-run Discord & we can’t wait to do more together. Here’s to community ❤️‍🔥

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