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Falling boundaries shifted

Logging

Island Timberlands has adjusted the falling boundaries on its private managed forest lands off Lockyer Road in upper Roberts Creek. The company has been harvesting on the lots since late December, and the group Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) asked the company to increase the buffers it had already established around streams and a popular trail.

An email exchange between ELF representatives and Island Timber-lands, copied to Coast Reporter, shows alterations to the block were made late last week after a handful of ELF supporters staged a brief early morning blockade.

ELF’s Ross Muirhead said they include a bigger buffer around Flume Creek and in an area where the Island Timberlands property borders Crown land that contains a stand of Sitka spruce.