Kokanee 2021-22 Cutblocks
These cutblocks located between Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park, and Kokanee Creek Provincial Park are a good example of BCTS poor logging practices. In this photo, you can see the BCTS flagging tape that marks "water course" and that the logging contractor logged right up to this little creek. This picture was repeated on something like 20 other creeks running through these six steep clearcuts.
BCTS auctioned off these 6 huge cutblocks in 2019. There was only a single bidder who bid just $2.01 over the minimum bid price per m3 of trees logged. Our math tells us the entire NET profit for BCTS (and us taxpayer) to log these blocks would be something like $103,000 based on an average gross to net profit ratio of about 15%.
The red arrow in this aerial photo of the six Kokanee cutblocks shows approximately where the iconic Kokanee Old Growth Trail is; an ultra-rare remnant patch of exquisite interior old growth. The highest up cutblock is only about 1.5 km away from the trail.
This picture was taken in April of 2025. BCTS appears to have unsuccessfully planted the top three of these cutblocks (likely in 2023), then used a controlled burn on them in the fall of 2024 in order clear the brush to replant them again. Due to the hotter and drier summers as the result of climate change and deforestation resulting the loss of the envirotranspiration effect of trees in BC, silv
The prescribed burning killed most of the leave trees.