Road Upgrade for Leo Creek Forest Service Road

Wednesday, April 01, 2009 03:49 AM

Ft. St. James, B.C.-Residents of Fort St. James and its surrounding communities will benefit from more than $393,000 to improve travel and safety conditions on the Leo Creek Forest Service Road and several of
its branches.

The Driftwood, Fall Takla and Buckley House Forest Service roads branch off of the Leo Creek road and provide access to Takla Landing and Buckley House First Nation communities. The Leo-Trembleur and
Leo-Kazchek provide access to the Middle River First Nation community on Trembleur Lake. The funding will improve road drainage and provide brushing as well as a calcium chloride treatment on 38 kilometres of the
heavily used beginning of the Leo Creek Forest Service road. This will reduce summer maintenance costs and improve safety by reducing dust.

British Columbia's 55,000-kilometre network of Forest Service roads is bigger than the provincial highway system.

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Posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 03:49 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: He speaks on April 1 2009 9:11 AM

Interesting now that all the trees are dead and gone, lets improve the roads.

Posted by: lost it all on April 1 2009 11:06 AM

Interesting how money is being spent on forest roads in Fort St. James and Mackenzie (Finley Forest Rd) yet neither town has any real lumber manufacturing plants in operation. While the timber that is available to the super mills is dead and dying, maybe just maybe the forest roads in these two communities need to be repaired and improved so the big companies that abandoned these communities can come back and take the timber that is healthier and diverse (with respect to species), so they can continue to operate.

Posted by: Shellshadow on April 1 2009 12:41 PM

These are not just logging roads. They go to native comunities. WHERE PEOPLE LIVE!

Posted by: lost it all on April 1 2009 12:47 PM

Honestly Shellshadow, do you think after 8 years of a provincial government doing nothing for the people and everything for thier corporate friends (appertunance, 2010 games who the majority of BC residents didn't want),that these road improvements are for the people who reside there.

Posted by: northman on April 1 2009 1:12 PM

Good news. The Leo/Driftwood system is more than just a forest service road. It serves as communuity access to 3 small communites and various lodges/rec areas. There is alot of mining exploration going on in that area. Despite the downturn in the forest industry there is still lots of logging and industrial activity on that road system.

By the way lost it all.. Fort st james still has 2 mills up and running. Apollo and Conifex. Both haul out of the leo system.

Posted by: swingline on April 1 2009 1:42 PM

Jeez, looks like the gov't is damned if they do and damned if they don't with you people. You complain about the upgrades to the SYD road saying no one lives there and it's only benefiting industry, and you complain about these upgrades because there's no industry and it only benefits people living there.

Posted by: Palopu on April 1 2009 8:15 PM

Any announcement by Governments a month or so before an election is suspect. A lot of these announcements could have been made, and the projects started 6 months ago, however they would not have the same effect.

Once the election is over, and especially if the Liberals win, announcements will be few and far between. After all they will be in the drivers seat for the next 4 years.

If there are any announcements after the electin, it will be about increases in taxes, insurance, services, etc;