Ken Day faces challenges of working forest proximity to the community

Near misses prompts forest manager to issue warning

Feb 08, 2017

There have been a few close calls between logging trucks and snowmobiles or ATVs in the area where Douglas-fir bark beetle harvesting is underway west of Williams Lake in the Flat Rock Block, said Williams Lake Community Forest manager Ken Day. “My main concern is the area off Birch Lane Road where we have had most of the run-ins,” Day said. “People could come around the corner and find logging trucks, pickup trucks and skidders working in the forest.” Potentially the work is going on seven days a week from dark to dark, he added. The work got underway just after Christmas and is expected to continue all through the winter until they cannot haul logs anymore.

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