Pressure on B.C. gov’t to fix trespassing laws that favour landowners | Vancouver Sun
vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-pressure-on-b-c-govt-to-fix-trespassing-laws-that-favour-u-s-billionaire-and-other-landowners
Court rules 2 B.C. lakes cannot be publicly accessed, siding with Canada’s largest cattle ranch
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/public-private-access-minnie-stoney-lake-%20ranch-appeal-court-merritt-1.5938741
Working Group to Identify and Support Public Access to Priority Areas on Private Forest Lands in Alberni-Clayoquot
March 2, 2021, Port Alberni, BC ̶ Mosaic Forest Management and the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, in partnership with the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, entered into an agreement to work together to prioritize and explore public access opportunities to areas within or adjacent to Mosaic-managed private forest lands in the Alberni-Clayoquot region. Through this agreement, a working [...]
Winter Access to Garibaldi Lake
BC Parks has announced (September 2021) that they have found "permanent" funding to allow the road to be plowed going forward. Thanks BC Parks- we really enjoyed having access here in winter 2020-21 too!
Old-Growth Strategy Announcement Only Defers Harvest on 64,000 Hectares of Old-Growth Forests
In September 2020, the Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Doug Donaldson, released the report, BC’s Old Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiversity, arising from the strategic review of old-growth forests conducted by Al Gorley and Gary Merkel. At the same time, Minister Donaldson announced a new approach to old forests via a news release. Some of the initial actions the government is [...]