Feral people

[Walking Buffalo]

Money is the biggest reason they don't do anything about it. Too expensive to put them into forced treatment, it's cheaper to give them free drugs till they die. Maybe they just need to give them a dose to end it all?

That's very Woke.

[TeeVee]

Jamison fsr in kamloops is a new subdivision..some camps at least two years occupied. I remember forestry burning cabins on public land..So what changed?

That guy with the trailer and tents has been there by the bridge for at least 3 years. Always waving and friendly looking when you drive by though.

[horshur]

That guy with the trailer and tents has been there by the bridge for at least 3 years. Always waving and friendly looking when you drive by though.

Tidy camp too

[zero64]

If I were homeless and had nowhere else to go I'd be out on a logging road long before I'd be in one of these city-squatting setups or at a highway rest area.

[Squamch]

Jamison fsr in kamloops is a new subdivision..some camps at least two years occupied. I remember forestry burning cabins on public land..So what changed?

Oh don't worry, they still burn cabins when they find them.

[high horse Hal]

The Okanagan Forest Task Force is a local group of volunteers that spend their extra time cleaning up the trash left after these camps are abandoned
They know well where the activity is but hands are tied to do anything while camps are occupied
It seems the spaces they clean are repopulated pretty quick
The timber supervisor at Balcean has her hands full each spring with new 'squatters' on their leases

[HappyJack]

A Universal basic income would help the hopeful out IF they could find affordable accommodations. We used to call it welfare but it works the same.

[j270wsm]

Instead of stealing more money from tax payers….maybe they should get off the drugs and get a job.

[HappyJack]

Instead of stealing more money from tax payers….maybe they should get off the drugs and get a job.

The problem is once they are heavy into the drugs changes occur in the brain and they no longer have to ability to make rational decisions. So the idea while sound just won't work, they need to be forcefully put into treatment, let them yell and scream all they want, and once they are clean for a fairly long period of time you could release them to see if they can maintain sobriety. If the fall off the wagon, send them back into treatment immediately before they sink real deep in again.

You must realize nobody hires drug addicts.

[MRP]

Oh don't worry, they still burn cabins when they find them.

I know of rufly of a 100 cabins, over half I'm sure are unregistered. I've only seen one burned but don't know if a accident or on purpose.