FROSTY MOUNTAIN SIGNAGE AND SIGHT LINES APPLICATION FOR PEF FUNDING DENIED I submitted an application in June to the Park Enhancement Fund that was denied. The project would have nailed up orange, reflective trail diamonds at regular intervals. The markers will be nailed high enough so they are not buried by winter snow which is typically two or three meters in depth at higher elevations. Sight lines will be improved by trimming lower branches along the trail and cutting back encroaching...

Update The BC Parks Enhancement Fund this year will direct half of the $240,000 of its Parks Enhancement Fund Grants to recreation initiatives, and the other to conservation initiatives. Backcountry BC exposed a heavy conservation bias in how BC Parks spends all of the money raised through the BC Parks License Plate program, which is also administered through the BC Parks Enhancement Fund. https://backcountrybc.ca/.../393-projects-funded-by-the... This raises new...

Year by year summary tables showing the projects awarded funding by the Park Enhancement Fund. The funding comes from the BC Parks Licence Plate Program. At the request of Backcountry BC, the BC Parks Enhancement Fund supplied us with the list projects funded by the BC Parks License Plate Program. Backcountry BC pointed out in 2020 that virtually all funding went to conservation or indigenous recreation projects. Yet, recreation is one of the pillars of BC Parks' mandate. Recreation projects...

The BC Parks License Plate Program - Where does the money go? What are all of these 220 projects I ask? "These funds support diverse projects related to Conservation, Community Engagement and Education, and Indigenous Relations.".  I don't see the word "recreation" anywhere in this description. The word "conservation" is of course ever-present throughout their website, but the word "recreation" seems to be treated like the name "Lord Voldemort" (the word that must not be named or...

From Backcountry BC - Time for a little grinch-like Christmas BC Parks post. Here is BC Parks (spin, spin go the spin doctors) thanking those of us who have purchased BC Parks license plates and how they are using that money in a manner, in their own words no less, that rejects the founding (and current) dual mandate of recreation and conservation. Notice that recreation, trails and facilities are never mentioned with regards to how they are spending your money; only the singular priority...