A local environmental group is headed back to court over whether a logging road in Grass River Provincial Park falls under the province’s ban on logging in provincial parks.

On Wednesday the Wilderness Committee filed notice they’ll appeal a recent Court of Queen’s Bench decision that said a logging road in a provincial park was not prohibited under Manitoba’s park logging ban.

"We feel it is important to clarify our park protection legislation--for Manitobans, and for all of our provincial parks," Eric Reder, Manitoba spokesman for the Wilderness Committee, said in a statement.

The Manitoba government banned logging in provincial parks in 2008, but a few weeks later--after the new legislation was proclaimed--it issued an Environment Licence to Tolko Industries for the construction of the Dickstone South logging road across Grass River Provincial Park. Tolko said the road is needed to give them easier access to a cutting area outside the park.

Last summer, the Wilderness Committee went to court to ask a judge if the logging road considered logging. In February 2012, the judge’s decision was released. It states that while a logging road is considered logging, the construction of Tolko’s logging road was not banned by Manitoba’s legislation.

No date has been set for an appeal hearing.