BC Parks Advisory Council This council came to existence out of the BC Parks Future Strategy in 2016. Does it exist? Who sits on it? What did it recommend? Can't seem to answer those questions by searching on Google. A Parks Advisory Committee will serve to provide the Minister of Environment with the opportunity to engage knowledgeable stakeholders on the BC Parks Future Strategy, both in terms of defining its goals and successes, and building a path to achieve them. As part of its mandate,...

The following document from 1955 predates the creation of BC Parks and discusses the need for a separate agency to manage Garibaldi Park separate from the Ministry of Forests and Lands.  This letter is significant in that it lays out the park founders's expectation for this new agency (which would become BC Parks).  On Page 4, the founders discuss their hopes with regards to a trail network for Garibaldi Park.  It is clear upon inspection of this document that the current BC...

It is our position that BC Parks and the BC Provincial Government have failed Garibaldi Park and the non-mechanized user in a most spectacular fashion.  The following list supports this view (supporting Documentation available to download on this site). When BC Parks was silent: Six boundary adjustment "giveaways" for Whistler Blackcomb (3100 Hectares, or an astonishing 31 Square Km).  These giveaways occurred under ALL types of elected governments including Social Credit, NDP...