BC Timber Sales (BCTS) claims they had nothing to do with an “Active Worksite” sign that was put up in Cathedral Grove on Friday, Dec. 23.
“Someone is playing a prank,” Said Rob Thomas, BCTS operations technician based in Port Alberni.
Written on the BCTS sign, tacked to a tree in the Grove, it is stated that Dickson Timber Falling LTD are prime contractors and Anderson Pacific Forest Products are the owners of operation in question. Several names and phone numbers are also written on the sign next to supervisor and timber mark.
“Those signs are usually posted at the start of active operations on timber sale license blocks but those blocks would be certainly not within a park,” Thomas said. “The only thing Parks has done in relation to trees is reduce hazard trees to the public but that wouldn’t involve BC Timber Sales whatsoever.”
Ribbons, with “falling boundary” written on them, were also tied around several of the trees next to an outhouse near the parking area at Cathedral Grove.
Dale Beleznay’s name and phone number are next to “Timber Mark” on the sign and he said he hadn’t heard anything about the sign or ribbons prior to the News calling him at noon Friday.
“I’ve never logged there before,” Beleznay said. “This is fraud.”
Beleznay lives in Sayward and works at Dickson Timber. He said Dickson isn’t doing any logging near Cathedral Grove and that he has no idea what’s going on with the sign and ribbon.
“Sounds like a joke to me,” he said.
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