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144 de-naturalisationPlate 2 Clayoquot as a natural resource. This page of a Macmillan Bloedelpamphlet on ‘scientific forestry’ depicts Clayoquot Sound as an abstract stock oftimber to be rationally managed on behalf of Canadians by ‘responsible’ forestcompanies like MacBlo (Reproduced from Macmillan Bloedel Research)the pro-logging lobby and environmentalists represent Clayoquot in similarways. In other words, their different intentions and aspirations for the forestaside, both groups unwittingly deploy the same discourse about the nonhumanworld (albeit in rather different idioms, one dispassionate, the otherromantic and moralistic). According to Braun it is a colonial discoursethat supposes that the ‘true’ character of Clayoquot is its naturalness (i.e.the absence of a human presence). It is colonial because it erases (orminimises) the presence of indigenous peoples. In Beyond the Cut, Braunargues, Clayoquot is depicted purely as a stock of valuable timber, while