Logging road maps

[johnes50]

Go on Google Earth and look at the area you want to go. Print out area complete with roads and it is in 3-D.

I did the same sort of thing on a BC gov. map site and got a black and white satellite photo of the exact spot where we saw some deer at about 1:5000. It will give coordinates as well.

[Johnnybear]

Do you have a link to this Gov. site?

[brotherjack]

http://maps.gov.bc.ca

The best backcountry road map's I've ever used. Under the Provincial Basemap, if you play with the settings, you can get full topo maps, every little skid or quad trail that you could imagine, cutblock info, and just generally gobs and gobs of great stuff. Between that, and Google Earth, I've gotten where I do 75% of my scouting without ever leaving home; and my time in the bush has gotten MUCH MUCH more productive in terms of number and quality of critter sightings.

[johnes50]

Use the links on the lefthand side and root around a bit.


http://maps.gov.bc.ca/

Hey brotherjack, you beat me to it! I do the same as you. Lots of map info on that site.

[Johnnybear]

Thanks. Like rifles, I believe you can never have enough maps. I go through them all the time especially area's I have never been but want to go to.

[CanAm500]

Ok I looked at that book and I wasnt really impressed i what i saw. Is there any place that I could pick up a forestry map that show all the logging roads in the Lake Cowichan area?

[Fred]

From your local Ministry of Forests office. You will have to look it up in the Blue Pages(govt listings) Fred

[CanAm500]

Ok, thanks.

Do you just go in and get one or do you have to buy it?

[Fred]

To be perfectly honest, I don't remember. But if I did pay for it,it was cheap like me, or I would have remembered! Fred

[brotherjack]

Did you try the maps.gov.bc.ca website? It's the same maps you'll get from the ministry of forrests folks, for free, and with tweakable settings and zoom rates. Print them out when you get em like you like.... Much better option, IMHO anyway...