Both the Campbell River Mirror and National Observer reported how the tiny Surge Narrows Community Association (SNCA) purchased 20 acres on Read Island in 2019.
“We just couldn’t bear to see yet another clearcut,” explained Read Island resident Lannie Keller. “It was a beautiful piece of treed land along the main road where people travel to get mail, to the school or the dock.”
Continue reading Taxes waived for Lot 302 on Read Island; a brief respite for Cortes IslandThere were a lot of Discovery Island Items at the SRD (Strathcona Regional District) Board meeting last week.
Continue reading Discovery Island Items at the SRD Board MeetingPublic rezoning hearings are proposed for four projects on Cortes and Quadra Islands. The final agreement with Cortes Island’s community halls is close to being signed. A parcel tax to help 32 Quathiaski Cove property owners pay their portion of the Quathiaski Cove Sewer Extension. Surge Narrows Community association is requesting a tax exemption for the proposed park on Read Island. These are among the Discovery Island Items to be discussed at the August 19th SRD Board Meeting.
Continue reading Discovery Island Items at the next SRD Board MeetingCanada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s a thoroughly unromantic name. Lot 302.
Yet the 20-acre parcel of timber symbolizes the achievement and ongoing battle by a tiny coastal community to protect as much mature forest as they can on their remote B.C. island.
Continue reading Saving A Forest On Read IslandCampbell River Mirror, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The tree loving, forest-buying, self-sufficient members of the community of Read Island are back to buy more forest land to preserve, a month after buying 20 acres of land.
Continue reading Read Island Buys A Forest
