John Kimantas, author of a series of excellent guidebooks to the coast of BC, and perhaps the person most knowledgeable of areas kayakers use there, just alerted Canadian paddlers that a large number of the beaches and campsites sea kayakers have traditionally used on Vancouver Island have been ceded over to the Maa-Nulth First Nations Peoples. Details of the losses begin here, on West Coast Paddler, a Victoria-based forum for paddlers: http://www.westcoastpaddler.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1486 Aside from more remote locations, the list includes the launch site and provincial campground at Toquart Bay, Barkley Sound, from which many paddlers begin their visit to the Broken Group. Although US citizens have little leverage, and the primary political pressure to alleviate this must come from Canadian citizens, if you follow the thread linked above, John lays out ways paddlers from other nations might help. Here's hoping we can get some relief from this. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 12:34:40 PDT
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