Barb Haley, Watershed Watch Chair

My Observations

Date: March 3, 2026 @ 0930

Area: Glen Lake FSR

Temperature: 8C

Weather: High overcast

Wind: Calm

Visibility: Excellent

Conditions: Spring-like, and dry…..

Observations: Another scouting drive today, this time out to the Glen lake area.

This is the first year that I have seen the FSR being kept open wellpast Glen Lake.

Pretty sure it is being maintained all the way through. I didn’t keep going on Glen Lake FSR proper, I followed the truck tire tracks and plow up the “Kathleen” FSR. I haave been there in the early fall, where it was a poorly maintained old road with pieces of flagging tape all along it.

It’s not that way now…..

Spending more time with some maps, the current area of cutblocks are on Mount Kathleen, with the Kathleen creek drainage not quite making it down to the Glen Lake FSR side cut the Chapman Creek does make its way down our way, as does other unnamed creeks do.

When the land dries up even more than it is now (nice snow pack this year eh?) I want to explore this area even more, especially now that they have made the roads on Mount Kathleen so easily accessible, and check out the devastation

More snooping in maps – I found a map of all the “harvested” areas above Peachland. (all the blue ones…) When you click on a blue harvested area, a pop up of the cutblock info tells you when it was harvested (month and year started and completed), how many hectares, square meters, the percentage of clearcut (100% usually) and the month/year when this was published.