Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Robert_G on March 16, 2015, 05:41:25 PM
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I was recently browsing MLS and noticed that half the islands on the river are for sale. We used to explore these as kids. They were all public. Now it seems they are privatizing them. I thought the Fraser river was all crown land????
What gives? Carey Island, Herring Island, Strawberry Island, Bailey Island, Morrow Island, etc, etc, etc.
Anyone shed some light?
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Have to balance the budget you know.
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I thought Herring was already private, owned by Wyerhauser or Kruger (formerly Scott). Maybe it's the corp that's dumping them not the Crown.
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So no real explanation?
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So you thought they were public when you were a kid-what proof did you have then and what proof do you have now?
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The real explanation is that they have been private all along. I couldn't imagine that there was just a land release of parcels on the Fraser Islands without much public exposure.
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They may have been publically owned when you were a kid in the Pleistocene Era ;) but it appears that they are currently privately owned by Kruger Products
http://matrix.cwcanada.com/asp/filecabinet/Property/927085/Kruger.pdf (http://matrix.cwcanada.com/asp/filecabinet/Property/927085/Kruger.pdf)
Link fixed
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the link is dead.
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the link is dead.
The link is to a PDF file - you may need to enable your browser to load the content (I did), but the link works just fine.
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The link is to a PDF file - you may need to enable your browser to load the content (I did), but the link works just fine.
It was not working for me too. Now it is OK.
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The link is to a PDF file - you may need to enable your browser to load the content (I did), but the link works just fine.
Works now. I've never had a problem opening a link to a pdf. I also notice Clarki edited his post
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Who's going to buy a bunch of islands that erode over time. So in 10 years you'll have next to nothing...
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Herling island isn't going anywhere. I hope whoever buys it up opens it back up for the bikes and ATVers.
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Herling island isn't going anywhere. I hope whoever buys it up opens it back up for the bikes and ATVers.
--If you want the Crown to buy it back then talk to your MLA...start a campaign/petition... it won't be free and I doubt that if the Crown purchases it that it will be designated as at bike/atv playground but one never knows.
--In USA lots of private bike, ATV parks maybe a BC association should look into it.
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--If you want the Crown to buy it back then talk to your MLA...start a campaign/petition... it won't be free and I doubt that if the Crown purchases it that it will be designated as at bike/atv playground but one never knows.
--In USA lots of private bike, ATV parks maybe a BC association should look into it.
$3.75 million is a lot for a bike track. And I wouldn't want my government to pay it either. Can't build on it, I am pretty sure it is in the flood plain.
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Just a thought but if it was crown land and turned into a bike park, wouldn't access that doesn't potentially involve vehicle loss have to be made?
Otherwise I could see some idiot sueing the crown if they went over to the island when the water was to high and lost their vehicle.
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It would be great to see some of these set aside as parkland but given the current economic climate that's hard to see. I don't know them well enough to know which are most suited. Strawberry Island would be fairly easy to access. Herrling would offer great fishing and other opportunities. Can't see who else would want to buy a big basket of flood plain islands - what else are they good for?