Hello,
I am writing about Walker Forest Service Road (FSR 3112), the British Columbia road to Kakwa Provincial Park.
On 22 July 2026 the Prince George Natural Resource District closed the road near kilometre 52 because of unsafe bridges, and barricaded it on 29 July. Its notice lists five bridges, at 56.1, 61.5, 65.4, 67.5 and 69.2 km, as downrated to 0 tonnes.
In 2023 the same district repaired bridges on this road that were rated at zero, and reopened the road beyond kilometre 37 for the winter. This time no plan has been published.
I would like answers to four questions:
1. Will the five bridges be repaired, replaced or removed, and when will that decision be made public?
2. Will the Ministry publish the inspection findings behind the July downrating, and the cost of repairing, replacing and removing each bridge?
3. Will the Ministry commit that no bridge on Walker FSR is removed, and no part of the road deactivated, before the public and BC Parks have had a chance to comment?
4. Will BC Parks update its Kakwa Park advisory so that visitors know the road is barricaded? Its 2006 management plan promised to do that if the road stopped being maintained.
I understand that a bridge closure for safety is an engineering decision. What happens to the bridges next is a decision about funding and public access, and I would like to know how it will be made.
To the candidates in Prince George-Valemount, who are copied: if you are elected, what will you do to keep road access to Kakwa Park open from British Columbia?
Thank you.
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Change the wording if you want to. A letter in your own words carries more weight than a hundred identical ones. The part worth keeping is the question itself.
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Who this goes to
| Who | Address | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Hon. Ravi Parmar | FOR.Minister@gov.bc.ca | Minister of Forests |
| Hon. Tamara Davidson | ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca | Minister of Environment and Parks |
| Prince George Natural Resource District | Forests.PrinceGeorgeDistrictOffice@gov.bc.ca | Ministry of Forests district office |
| Rosalyn Bird | rosalyn.bird@conservativebc.ca | Conservative Party, Prince George-Valemount · blind-copied |
| Carol Bourque | carol.bourque@bcndp.ca | BC NDP, Prince George-Valemount · blind-copied |
| Jodie Capling | teamcapling@bcgreens.ca | BC Green Party, Prince George-Valemount · blind-copied |
| Mitchell Lukoni | mitchell.lukoni@1bc.ca | OneBC, Prince George-Valemount · blind-copied |
| Backcountry Coalition | contact@backcountry.cx | Copied so we can count how many of these went out and follow what comes back. We never publish anyone’s letter or address. |
Read the evidence first
The notice, the bridge records, the 2023 repair and who answers for the road.
- Editorial · Walker FSR Ravi Parmar’s Forests ministry closed the only B.C. road to Kakwa Park over five unsafe bridges. Snowmobilers, horse packers, hikers and hunters are cut off, and the ministry has published no plan to reopen it.
- Take action Every prepared letter The province-wide questions on public access, for every party.