Bridge Lake
Bridge Lake is one of the largest lakes in an area known as “the Fishing Highway,” east of 100 Mile House. A portion of its forested shore, home to loons, grebes, otter and mink, was set aside in 1945 as a protected Crown Reserve and is used for recreation by locals and visitors.
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Bridge Lake
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Bridge Lake is one of the largest lakes in an area known as “the Fishing Highway,” east of 100 Mile House. A portion of its forested shore, home to loons, grebes, otter and mink, was set aside in 1945 as a protected Crown Reserve and is used for recreation by locals and visitors.
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The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations has offered 18 hectares of protected Crown Reserve land in the Cariboo to a developer for a subdivision as part of a land exchange. Your help is needed urgently to protect a safe haven for wildlife and cherished recreation opportunity on Bridge Lake.
Bridge Lake is one of the largest lakes in an area known as “the Fishing Highway,” east of 100 Mile House. A portion of its forested shore, home to loons, grebes, otter and mink, was set aside in 1945 as a protected Crown Reserve and is used for recreation by locals and visitors.
If this land swap goes forward, the developer will acquire a portion of the protected shoreline, worth over $ 4 million, in exchange for an island on the lake worth barely a quarter of that sum, in clear contravention of the Official Community Plan and the Ministry's own guidelines.
Please take a minute to write to Premier Christy Clark and members of the Cabinet. For more information visit Friends of Bridge Lake.
