By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Marc Doll is running to represent Area C in the Strathcona Regional District, covering some of the Discovery Islands and mainland inlets between Vancouver Island and the Mainland, in BC’s upcoming municipal elections.
Quadra and Read Islands are part of Area C with a large concentration of population.
Continue reading Quadra island resident Marc Doll running in SRD municipal election
Janeen Sutherland has been the Wilderness Tourism Association’s (WTA) Executive Director for close to three months.
The North Vancouver native has a background in tourism and sustainable community development.
Continue reading Wilderness Tourism Association’s new Executive Director: Looking towards ‘a really bright future’On August 17, Cortes Currents published a review of David Broadland’s report ‘Land-use planning on Quadra Island has been undone by the Ministry of Forests.’
Broadland wrote that while all of the other Quadra Island woodlots leave big trees standing, Okisollo Resources fells a substantial number. In ‘before’ and ‘after’ satellite images from one of their cutblocks at Hummingbird Lake, he showed that 35 out of about 50 were logged in July and August of 2019.
Continue reading Cutting Old Growth: Quadra Woodlot holder responds
The Strathcona Regional District (SRD) is developing an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) for Area C. the Discovery Islands and Mainland Inlets.
Meredith Starkey, the Manager for Parks and Planning, described this as a broad level vision plan which can lead to more specific policies and regulations.
Continue reading Creating an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan for Area CThe Strathcona Regional District Board (SRD) expressed its frustrations with the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) consultation process at the Aug 17 SRD Board meeting.
Although they were among the parties invited to a series of meetings about the transition of open net pen fish farms out of the ocean, there have been last minute scheduling changes.
Continue reading Fish Farms: SRD frustrations with DFO consultation process
