The BC government is expanding some provincial parks and protected areas, including one in the Cariboo.
Proposed amendments to the Protected Areas of British Columbia Act would add 29 hectares to Bridge Lake Provincial Park east of 100 Mile House.
Expansions will also be made to parks in the Kootenays, Okanagan, and on the Sunshine Coast.
The proposed amendments will also see a park on Vancouver Island changed to include a traditional Indigenous name.
John Dean Park will be known as ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱/John Dean Park, which means “place of refuge” in the language of the W̱SÁNEĆ people.
British Columbia has 1,033 provincial parks, recreation areas, conservancies, ecological reserves, and protected areas covering more than 14 million hectares, or about 14.4% of the province.
