Evening fellas (and/or gals). I'm planning a couple of hunting trips up in Lillooet in October and November, and I noticed that last year when I was up there, a large portion of that area is reserve land, and thus off limits to someone of my... heritage. Fast forward to today, I got a backroad mapbook that shows reserve land, and it looks like there are quite a few FSRs "behind" designated reserve land. Now, please forgive my ignorance, but am I going to get into any sort of trouble driving through reserve land to get to some of these areas? It feels like a weird question, but I'd rather not poke the wasp nest if I can avoid it...
Res land is the same as Private Property. You can't be on it without the Band Office permission. About all there is for exceptions is if here is a public road across the Res, like the highway or the road through to Bridge River area.
Given the current state of things and the signs and chains that the Cayoosh Band has been putting up and roads being blockaded (access in to the Texas Creek/ Molybdenite basin is cut off by a manned road block to 'protect the sacred grizzly bears'), and they had the access to the river frontage near town chained off to 'protect Western Screech Owl Habitat', along with a speed boat full of guys chasing down kayakers on the Seton Lake "to protect our elders from Covid", I'm gonna guess that you are not like to get much in the way of a free pass there.
But stranger things have happened.
I have long ago stopped being polite to folks too effing stupid to believe that the No Trespassing signs on our roads actually mean them, usually I start by asking them if they were always effing stupid, or if they just thought it would be fun to try for the day. And that the police were already inbound. Privately built roads across private property. The roads built above OUR roads, on Crown land, WERE built under the applicable Acts, and you are free to access them. As long as you don't expect to do so through our property. BTW, the loggers that did cross our property, paid to do so, as well as providing road repairs and maintenance as part of their deal.
Last guy that got really snippy about going across our property to mine his gold claim near the river, had a short and pretty one sided conversation with the Mines Commissioner, which resulted in his being back here two days later attempting to sell me his claim on my own land...He still has the Claim. Just not the access he thought was going to get him, his truck and trailer, and drinking buddies, in to play at gold mining on our property. We don't have to let him cross our crop lands, nor do we have to allow him to use roads not built under Forest or Mines Acts.
If there is a logging road in to a cut block above a Res near Lillooet, I'd put a buck on the bet that there is a steel gate across the bottom of the road going up there to keep the likes of us out.
My home turf.
