This is a short 2005 TV news story about the Wilderness Committee's campaign to keep new privately owned lodges and hotels out of BC's publicly owned Provincial Parks. There are a number of existing privatly owned facilities in parks such as Manning, Cypress and Seymour, but we do not want this privatization to expand. We managed to over several years (2005-2006) to stop any new private lodges from getting a foot-hold in our parks and for now (2009) the push by the BC government to allow private lodges and hotels to get into the Provincial Parks system seems to have died down.
Coming from Germany on a Biology Internship, I spent three months in the Wilderness Committee office mapping critical habitat for the endangered seabird, the Marbled Murrelet. My work involved data and statistical analysis, quantifying habitat variables, assessing habitat quality and conducting road density calculations. I also spent some great time in the wilderness doing research.