More than 1.35 million acres of conservation and recreational lands in Northwest BC was cancelled by the provincial government over the past four years.

Areas that community groups, municipalities, First Nations and Government spent years working through land designation precesses to ensure these areas were off limits to industrial development, especially logging.

But after years of combing through government reports and data, Len Vanderstar, a former provincial government  habitat biologist is calling out the BC  government for not following their own policy in making these cancellations.

Today we’ll chat with Len Vanderstar as well as Jay Gilden, local residents calling attention to the situation, to talk about their concerns about these land cancellations and what it means for the land use process that got us here.