Various incidents near a possible nest on Vancouver Island witnessed in British Columbia, Canada

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This incident is a follow-up 3 years ago (Dec 2003 At that time we ran into a den or nest about 15 - 20 feet long constructed of old rotten tree saw-dust, cedar branches and wood shavings, moss, dirt compacted on top of torn and chewed up wood chips about half -a-foot long with branches and twigs all all WEAVED together over top of a big hole which was dug into the ground. Over top of the hole was large trees dragged and placed over the hole. All this led up to a huge old-growth fallen tree crossing the trail. The first thing we noticed then was 15-20 trees had all been "topped"....pushed over, broken off at the height of about 6 feet..and dragged over to make this nest. Debris everywhere. This was an area where there was NO windfall and these trees had been pushed down pointing toward each other and facing down the path toward the den. At this time my husband was already standing on the end of the nest on top of the fallen tree just taking in the scenery when all of a sudden.....