Stoltmann Wilderness/Write your MLA

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.15 - No.03 Winter 1996

WHAT'S SPECIAL ABOUT THE STOLTMANN WILDERNESS?

InterFor's road building equipment, poised to push logging roads farther up Sims Creek into the Stoltmann Wilderness. Photo by James Jamieson.

  • It is the largest remaining wilderness in the Lower Mainland (260,000 hectares).
  • It encompasses four of the eight intact large watersheds in the Lower Mainland (Sims Creek, Cledenning Creek Upper Elaho Valley, Upper Lillooet Valley).
  • It harbours the biggest stands of Douglas fir remaining in the Coast Mountains.
  • It is the most southerly extent of moose in B.C.
  • It contains the closet grizzly bear population to Vancouver.
  • More people are employed in tourism than in logging in the region around the Stoltmann Wilderness.