156 – Friends of Ecological Reserves

Sunshine Coast group rallies to save Forest with 1,000 Hearts from loggers

24OctoberGarry Fletcher156, BC Parks, ER Proposals, Logging old-growth, Management, Photos, Reports

Sunshine Coast group rallies to save Forest with 1,000 Hearts from loggers: Vancouver Sun Randy Shore Publishing date: October 24, 2019 ROBERTS CREEK (Oct. 24, 2019) — Ross Muirhead and Elphinstone Logging Focus are trying to stop the emerging old growth inside a proposed provincial park expansion from being logged. Randy Shore/Postmedia News [PNG Merlin

Mt Elphinstone Proposed Park Expansion

15MayGarry Fletcher156, BC Parks, ER Proposals, Management, Photos, ReportsElphinstone

From the Elphinstone Logging Focus website: https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/photos/mt-elphinstone-proposed-park-expansion/ Mt. Elphinstone Proposed Park Expansion Behind the town of Roberts Creek on BC’s Sunshine Coast lies the 140 hectare Mt. Elphinstone Provincial Park. Conservationists and local eco-group Elphinstone Logging Focus are calling for a 1500 hectare expansion of the park to include the surrounding endangered old-growth and mature

Site Visit: Rubus nivalis locations, Mount Elphinstone 2014.

11AugustGarry Fletcher156, ER Proposals, Logging old-growth, Photos, Rare Species, Reports

Site Visit: Rubus nivalis locations, Mount Elphinstone Aug. 11, 2014. Rubus nivalis site visit Aug. 2014 (5) Copy final Margaret Symon, R.P.F. P.C.P. Strathcona Forestry Consulting Introduction. At the invitation from Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) Society*, I joined Mr. Ross Muirhead on August 11 to examine Rubus nivalis (Snow Bramble) at a proposed BCTS cutblock

The Roberts Creek Headwaters Ancient Forest

13JulyGarry Fletcher156, ER Proposals, Issues, Logging old-growth, Maps, Photos, Rare Species, Species Listold growth, pacific western yew, yellow cedar

On July 11 2013, Ross Muirhead, Bill Legg and Hans Penner of Elphinstone Logging Focus, an environmental group based in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, took Helen and I up to up to a small patch of forest presently included in a BC Timber Sales Block (BCTS) Cutblock DK045. They had identified this area with concern for