LETTER: Reader feels despair over logging in Lynch Creek
Reading 'Logging in Lynch Creek North is underway' filled me with despair and anger. Despair because Lynch Creek North is an important corridor for a threatened grizzly bear population and the road density in the area already far exceeds the level recommended by grizzly bear biologists.
Logging in Lynch Creek North is underway
Logging started in Lynch Creek North on Jan. 9, after the Midway mill Vaagen Fibre Canada successfully bid on the project.
Lynch Creek grizzlies are endangered, according to FRNF report
“The Granby-Gladstone grizzly bear population and the landscape it depends on are in crisis.” That is the stark conclusion reached by well-known grizzly bear biologist, Dr. Brian Horejsi, in a report released Aug. 23 by the grass roots organization, Friends and Residents of the North Fork (FRNF).
Plans for Lynch Creek North move ahead
Work has started in Lynch Creek North, where 90 hectares of forests are slated for timber harvesting in the coming months by BC Timber Sales (BCTS). Of those hectares, 64 are near the Gladstone Forest Service Road, which is currently being upgraded to allow logging trucks safe access. The road is scheduled to be decomissioned once the logging is complete.
COMMENT: Timber sales will degrade an already devastated North Fork
The landscape surrounding the Granby and Gladstone Parks has been totally fragmented by logging and road building. That’s the stark message conveyed in the satellite map released today by Friends and Residents of the North Fork.
BC Timber Sales to start addressing concerns over logging Lynch Creek
Concerns Brown Creek residents have with logging proposed for the Lynch Creek area will be looked at this week by a team of staff from BC Timber Sales, said Ingrid Russell, planner with BCTS out of Nelson.