The Randy Stoltmann Wilderness
Preserve the Sims, Clendenning, Upper Elaho & Upper Lillooet River Valleys
The threats are immediate!
B.C.'s two biggest forest companies, armed with Tree Farm Licence agreements giving them exclusive cutting rights to the forest, want to build access roads into the Stoltmann Wilderness and log some of the very last of the big Douglas fir forests left on the mainland coast of B.C.
MacMillan Bloedel is seeking a Forest Service permit to build a road through unstable pumice slopes of the upper Lillooet River to access the fir stands there. Interfor is currently building a road into Sims Creek, blasting rock and debris right into this Class A fish stream. Forest Service approval is pending for further road construction and cut blocks in the Clendenning and Upper Elaho watersheds.
Upper Lillooet Valley, north end of the wilderness area.
