A few Forestry related maps

A few selected maps and one report, all relating in some way to the Pitt River Watershed.

Landscape units
Widgeon  (PDF);   Pitt (PDF);  Alouette (PDF);  Stave Lake area (PDF)

Legal Descriptions
Pitt to Harrison Lake (PDF); Harrison Lake to the Fraser River (PDF)


Historic Licensee operating areas ( Chilliwack Forestry District )  (PDF)
Lower Fraser Sustainable Resource Management Plan, SRMP  (54 pages) 2013  (PDF)
Radio Channels being used up to 26 November 2015 (PDF)
Old Growth Managment in the Chilliwack Forestry District   (PDF)

Squamish Foresty District
Squamish  Operating tenures  (PDF)
Old Growth Squamish Forestry District (PDF)
Squamish Forestry District Bridge Locations  (PDF)

And a few images in a not so common format, from the Lands Office. Both are of the Upper Pitt River, and show some of the premptions.  You will need to have one of the appropriate converters installed since they are both in MrSID format ( Download Screen )      PNWS02Tr07    and   PNWS27Tr01


NOTE:  If any of these links do not work, please email me, and I will host the documents elsewhere.
The links are all to the FTP sites of the Chilliwack and Squamish Forestry Districts

Park Planning process underway

Pinecone Burke Park Management Planning
Early planning is underway for the park, comments until Nov 20, 2014, (extended to Nov. 30 ) online commenting or download a PDF and have Your say.
There will be more chances to comment as the process moves along.
This is a long overdue process for this park.

From the Georgia Straight:
 Future of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park hinges on plan expected in 2015
B.C. Parks accepting public input on development of draft management plan

Burke and Widgeon, a hiker's guide

A local hiker Lyle Litzenberger has recently published a book about Burke and Widgeon Creek areas.
Newspaper article:  Burke, by the book

      Burke and Widgeon   a hiker's guide
          Lyle Litzenberger
             pebblestone publishing 2013
                  ISBN  0981125808, 9780981125800

And a dedicated website for the book: BurkeandWidgeon
Buy the book information
Long overdue, I hope that this book is widely read and enjoyed.

Mitchell B-25 crash in 1953

This plane looks nothing like these photos today.

Frank Goodship fonds. Item No. IHP9267-0710.  Date 1953.  b&w negative ; 6 x 6 cm. Photograph shows the remains of a Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashed against a mountain. Research indicates it was a Mitchell B-25 Mk 3PT Ex USAF B-25J-30/32-NC serial number 44-31346 that crashed at Widgeon Lake, near Pitt Lake.
Record ID 48255

Frank Goodship fonds. Item No. IHP9267-0712. Date 1953.  b&w negative ; 6 x 6 cm. Photograph of a Royal Canadian Air Force plane crashed against a mountain with helicopter 9606 hovering over it. Research indicates it was a Mitchell B-25 Mk 3PT Ex USAF B-25J-30/32-NC serial number 44-31346
Record ID 48257
Both photos from New Westminster Archives
I have created a PDF that contains many pictures, and the newspaper articles of the time about this tragic event. Download the 1130kb PDF, or view the file using the Google viewer.
Cheers

Pinecone-Burke Provincial Park

This blog was created for anybody interested in the Park, which is located in south-western portion of British Columbia, encompassing the western uplands of Pitt Lake, Upper Pitt River. Trail conditions, and maintenance schedules will be posted as time permits. I encourage all visitors, to post trail conditions here, it will help us to target the worst areas.
Burke Mountain Naturalist members, regularly organize walks, hikes throughout the area, check the schedule here
Maps and GPS coordinates, are a work in progress, stay tuned!
A pdf map of the lower park's trails, from the Province.
The City of Coquitlam has a mapping application called Qthemap (IE only!) which allows you to print off maps of the Coquitlam portions of the park, the hiking trail overlay in this application is very vague and poor.