Barb Haley, Watershed Watch Chair
My Observations
Date: November 14, 2024 @0900am
Area: Checking up on past logging ops
Temperature: 7C
Weather: Precipitating light rain …. or snow depending on where you are.
Visibility: Fair
Conditions: Winter in coming!
Observations: Always willing to check out places I’ve never been to!
Revisiting the Glen Lake Fire “Rehabilitation” area
Back in July, the PWPA Directors took a trip up past Glen lake to observe the damage from the fire a year ago (BCWS Sept 2023 K53294 @1,116.2 Hectares).
On that day we witnessed:
- Overgrown, poorly managed coniferous sections…
- The last fire still burned the “unburnable” cut block areas (so much waste materials made for excellent ground fuels)
- Gormans was supposed to harvest the burned and damged trees, from our observations, more than that was harvested, and yet stands of damaged trees were left.
- No due care was given to water sources, all of which feed into our water supply. The “bridges” were a joke
- Slash piles left behind in areas that now have roads which are “decommissioned”. There were some slash piles burned this fall, infact, I found one still smouldering.
Today’s trip I noted:
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- At the bottom staging area, new equipment is sitting and waiting
- A few km’s along the road there is new logging activity, one huge cut block on both sides of the road and further down even more! This area though not necessarlily steep terrain, still on a slope directly above Greata Creek.
- Road is still decomissioned but with recent activity, probably still accessing the burn piles and hunters.
- Checked out a road I hadn’t yet, and it showed me even more ravaged land.
- This entire area surrounds the Eneas Lake Provincial Park.
