Whistler

Of trails and due process As a person interested in mountain biking for fun and fitness, rather than either risk or competition, I none-the-less joined this year?s Tour de Soo.

While the Whistler Public Library celebrates its 15 th anniversary Saturday with birthday cake and reading lists from locals, it will be next spring before fund-raising begins for the new library.

Poisonous Plants? Don?t be Ranunculus. By Bob Brett, Whistler Naturalists Blue berries, for juicy pies; Eat ?em now, and no-one dies.

Interior town embarks on the transition from trees to tourism LILLOOET ? On a ponderosa pine- and sagebrush-covered terrace above this small B.C. Interior town stands a gnarled pine known as Hangman?s Tree.

Bibliophile-plus Joan Richoz is synonymous with the Whistler Public Library.

Whistler-Blackcomb is looking close to home to meet its staffing needs for the upcoming ski season.

The B.C. government is keeping quiet about its review of the Lillooet Land and Resources Management Plan and the Southern Chilcotin Mountains provincial park. Stan Hagen, the minister of sustainable resource management, was in Lillooet Aug.

Tourism B.C. optimistic that industry will continue to grow There are signs that the B.C. tourism industry, after enjoying a decade of growth and prosperity, may be slowing down.

A story in the Aug. 24 issue of Pique , headlined Cat-skiing company has plans for Duffey Lake, stated that Pemberton-based Cayoosh Helisports Ltd. has already been granted a tenure for the area.

Faced with provocative acts by environmentalist, a group of B.C. loggers has taken anger management courses to help them deal with future confrontations This story first appeared in Logging and Sawmilling Journal By Rick Crosby A handful of B.C.