if you’re not convinced that roads are an issue, and the province requires more areas free of industry roads, watch this video, maybe it will help you understand.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY3gj...ature=youtu.be
who are the real killers?
if you’re not convinced that roads are an issue, and the province requires more areas free of industry roads, watch this video, maybe it will help you understand.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY3gj...ature=youtu.be
who are the real killers?
Sadly, it isn't just road access when it comes to the environment and it's concerns.
Everyone, meaning government and industry like to talk about it as if they are concerned but the truth is, in the end,
industry always wins out.
It's like when there is talk about the "new management plan", and that "all parties/interests" will be involved in the discussions.
IT's all good on paper, but the truth is, special interests is just another word for "lobbyists" who are only there to make
sure they are not loosing out.
Which is true of all who are invited, industry worried about losing jobs, and FN wanting more of the land under their control and hunters wanting to make sure they have more to hunt.
Its just that some of those interest groups have lobbyist who carry cash to make sure they get what they want.
Truth is, we are not much better than anywhere else on the planet when it comes to taking care of the environment.
We just aren't doing it in a way that will make it better for future generations, or at least in a way that they can enjoy
things to the same capacity as previous generations.
I don't hold my breath thinking things will change anymore.
If things don't change, we hunters will be the first ones out of the scenario.
Industry will just slow down when there is nothing left for them to harvest as far as resources.
Seems like the only way to protect anything is to turn it into a Park.
They don't want to change unless they absolutely have to change.
And even if that happens, it will take several decades for things to come back.
I recently just watched a couple of documentaries, the plastic ocean and another on a river being poisoned in the States, and you would think that in the States, more would be done when things are found out, and thus rectified.
In the end, the industries lobbyists just manage to find a way for government to basically sweep it under the rug.
In the end, it really is left up to the individual to make the difference.
Something to think about.
I fully agree and the more I have become involved in trying to correct the wrongs or bring awareness to the issues, the more disheartened I become. You only have to go as far as the provincial budget to realize NO ONE
in government, the very people who can change and make a difference, cares about wildlife or the environment. They will do a little thing here or there as lip service, but that is it. Even the pro environment NDP dedicates single percentage digits in their budget.......shameful. Don't get me started on the DFO..... but I keep trying simply because I feel we need to at least try. Its apparent not many others are willing to..... for those of you who do...kudos to you!
There was a time I thought all parties that cared for wildlife and habitat conservation could find common ground. I was wrong. Adapt....
Very well said. We do need to call for change in big industry BC. And embrace it when it comes. Our F&W stand to gain the most. When F&W are doing well there’s plenty of opportunities for all of us. If things stay as they are now everything and everyone loses. Hopefully as hunters and fishermen we can gain enough voice to be heard and understood. We are behind on this subject as many other organizations are moving ahead on this.
As long as there is logging there will be access. As long as there are wild fires there will be access. Deactivating the roads only stops the motor vehicles. The atv owners, and I am an atv owner, will find ways around the deactivation site. How can we stop atv owners from clearing out access roads around deactivation sites when mountain bikers are allowed to construct bike trails with reckless abandon at all elevations? At one site off Arawana road a small excavator was brought in to construct a section of a mountain bike trail.
We can annihilate all the predators but without habitat the writing is on the wall for the demise of certain wildlife species. Let the wild fires do what they are meant to do in the grand sceme of things and that is to restore habitat. It is short term pain for long term gain. Protect the residential areas but let the wild fires burn burn out with no access created. Selectively log the areas with focus on protecting valuable animal habitat. Protect low elevation winter ranges. Sadly this will never happen as we a too focused on a strong bottom line for logging companies and timber mills and a strong economy.
The 'new age' foresters with all the letters behind their names and zero logging experience have deemed to take fire out of the equation. Un-burned slash, a few large piles of debris (it took diesel fuel/time) and dead replants because of heat. The slash stays like a moonscape for 3+ years, lots of dry fuel on the ground, no fireweed, no bugs, bees, birds, or bears . . .
If you don't have the RPF letters behind your name, the 40+ years of bushcraft and logging mean nothing . . .
Burn the slash, get that cut-block 'working' again . . .
I remember hiking in with several guys to a lake one of them used to go to.
In the meantime, he hadn't realized so much logging happened from the opposite side that we hiked from at the lake.
We took over an hour to get there.
Once we got close we could hear a motor.
Turns out had we hiked from the "logged side", it would have taken less than 15 minutes.
BUT, what made it worse, was that an ATV guy cut a trail thru the remaining distance to bring a boat in!
(worst part was, the lake is so small, that he had to constantly keep the motor turn….he just did a big circle!...
it was just know for big fish, but it was basically a pond!)
So many times now I have seen ORV users just make their own trails!
I have seen them up in the kettle valley, in the alpine, where they knew they weren't supposed to be, and argued about
what defined the border of the closure.
And that's just ORV's and roads and non road issues.
Then you have all those "HELI TOURS" going on, especially in the EK.
Seems to be little regulation there.
Out goat hunting and then, hey look, half of Japan is up there with Camera's!!
Or just seeing them hover over peaks where Bighorn are.
Talk about "stressing out" the wildlife.