Don’t let logging trucks in park
Sasquatch Provincial Park is a Class A Park established for the protection and maintenance of biological diversity and natural environments and for the protection and maintenance of recreational values.
A logging company had applied for a park use permit to haul through the park and has twice been denied by park staff. They now are applying for a park boundary adjustment to remove the roads from the park allowing them to run their trucks up and down the roads.
The licensee has deemed two routes that do not go through the park as not economically viable for them.
There is an estimated 975,000 m3 of harvestable timber that would go through the park; an estimated 21,667 logging trucks. The licensee has said they will only haul in the ‘shoulder’ months but not on weekends. The hauling could go on indefinitely.
Last year 330,000 people visited the park; 132,270 during “shoulder months” of which 13,727 were campers and 118,543 were day visitors.
Policy says that the minister may stop this process if there is “significant public opposition.”
Join me and email Minister of Environment Mary Polak to show your opposition to this hauling proposal. ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca
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