back country restrictions

[Big Lew]

Currently throughout most of the Cariboo and Kamloops regions there are
travel restrictions in place. ATVs are not allowed on FSRs but on-highway
vehicles are.
I'm having difficulty finding a definitive answer from our government as to what
exactly is defined as a recognized road in their recent road and off-road usage.
Does this mean that highways and forest service roads can be used by on-highway
vehicles, but any logging roads into cut blocks are closed?

[MichelD]

I was wondering the same thing. Buddy and me cancelled our Sept. 1 Region 3 alpine 4-point hunt because he said the roads into the area we go to annually were completely closed. I actually have not found anywhere that states that. We have no quad.

[Whonnock Boy]

I'm going out with my boy for the youth season, and my take on it is, anything that has predominantly gravel showing and no substantial grass growing, I'm driving on it. With that said, we will error on the side of caution when having to decide if a road is "open" or not.

[Linksman313]

Does this mean that highways and forest service roads can be used by on-highway
vehicles, but any logging roads into cut blocks are closed?

Very good question Big Lew, seeing all the threads starting on this subject in the past 2 days it seems many of us have the same query. This last bit you mentioned is almost verbatim from the RCMP officer at the GF shell station Saturday morning, he said all regularly maintained (?) FSR's are open, all spur roads are closed, he also mentioned after some prodding by myself that some enforcement would be at the judgement of the authority at hand (again ?)
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[swampdonkey]

I'm going out with my boy for the youth season, and my take on it is, anything that has predominantly gravel showing and no substantial grass growing, I'm driving on it. With that said, we will error on the side of caution when having to decide if a road is "open" or not.

I'm doing the same .

[835]

im going with Wonnock boys take as well....

[Whonnock Boy]

I guess I should have said I'll be in regions 3 and 8....

[835]

to late....lol...

[Big Lew]

Apparently, as "Linksman313" posted, only recognized Forestry Service Roads are open
to on-road vehicles and there will be increased patrols, especially this long weekend, to
insure compliance. This would mean that any logging roads and their spurs coming off
a FSR on crown land are out of bounds. This also means that if hunters wish to hunt cut
blocks not alongside a FSR, they will have to use shoe leather both in and out.

[Whonnock Boy]

A big ole Srupp hmmmmmm....... I'm going to stick with my initial comment based on a little further research. Every road, FSR or spur is "defined" on a map of some sort with the forest service. If it's not, I would think it is completely deactivated. Having a restriction as ambiguously worded as that is going to leave it up for interpretation, and that is what I have done, interpreted it.

http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprS...seRestrictions


"In addition, all on-highway vehicles must remain on defined road surfaces."

de·fine
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verb
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• 1.
  state or describe exactly the nature, scope, or meaning of.