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Letters: Indeed, we need to be staying out of the woods

'I spent years in logging camps on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the ‘60s.  When summer dry season hit, and the government and meteorological reports went out, we left the woods. Period.'
Coast Reporter
Trees set against a blue sky
Bronwyn Beairsto

Editor: 

I have framed Bill Ellis’s “I wouldn’t be in the woods right now” letter to the editor in the June 16 paper. 

I spent years in logging camps on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the ‘60s.  When summer dry season hit, and the government and meteorological reports went out, we left the woods. Period. No beehive burning, no logging, no pulp mill operation, no saw sharpening, no machinery, no tromping through, no camping, no fishing, no hunting, no fires of any kind. Even some on-road vehicles were banned. It was well enforced. Granted, technology has changed significantly. However, we need to pay attention to history, AND to First Nations traditions. 

Sincerely, 

Chris Wilkinson 

Gibsons