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Currently, two isolated patches of the Raush are Protected Areas, totalling 6,667 hectares of the 101,000-hectare watershed.  “There's never been logging,” Howard said. “It's definitely old growth in the valley bottoms. It's still intact, that's the main thing.”  But that may soon change. Maps distributed to Raush stakeholders and shared with the Goat, show a proposal by Prince George-based Carrier Lumber to build roads through one of the protected areas to access unprotected forests further into the watershed.  Current land use terms restrict the protected areas from resource ...

The Historic Goat River Trail was originally commissioned in 1886 as a gold rush trail along the Goat River, and was reportedly used during Prohibition in the early 1900s to deliver bootleg liquor to railway construction camps along the Fraser River. The trail was reactivated by Fraser Headwaters Alliance in the late 1990s to bring attention to environmental issues in the area and protect the Goat River watershed. Funding from the province, announced last month, is part of a $90 million community economic recovery infrastructure program to support economic resilience, tourism, heritage, an...