Need help finding Crown Land in BC

coops1911 said:
yea you need a good comp and good internet for it to work.
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Yeah, my laptop just can't seem to do it. Can you post a screenshot of the Jordan River/Diversion Reservoir area and maybe one of the next best crown land spot? I'm out of ideas. I can't believe it's so difficult to find out what is and is not crown land.
 
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Thanks a lot for posting those. Hmm so the far reservoir with the tower is actually crown land. The RCMP guy said they were seizing guns and licences there anyway. It looks like the big square in the first picture would be a good spot. Through the gate on the right when you would normally turn left to go up to the excavated pit. From what the RCMP said to me though, it sounds like they'd seize your guns and charge you anyway and make you fight to get them back. Are there any Crown areas between Jordan river and Mill Bay that look safe?
 
Yeah, I have been camping and shooting up around Bear Creek for fifteen years. It all used to be crown land for the most part but over the past year or two all that land has been sold off to private land owners. They have gated off most of the roads and used excavators to block off most of the good shooting spots. The sign that has been posted is not actually at Forebay rd. It is at North Main which is a few km up across from China Beach. The sign seems to be officially put there by the CRD, however, it seems like a nonsense sign as Jordan River is unincorporated land, which means they have no power to ban discharging firearms. Discharging of firearms is legal in all unincorporated land in Canada as far as I know.
 
Ya I just got my first gun not that long ago and am looking for a decent place to go shooting preferably in the cobble hill area if anyone has some suggestions
 
I've been looking around and it looks like most places have been designated as private land now.

You can also use the CRD atlas.
http://viewer.crdatlas.ca/public

or iMapBC
http://maps.gov.bc.ca/ess/sv/imapbc/

From what I've seen the CRD atlas and iMapBC seem to have more detail but it gets confusing as the 3 systems all show crown land but they don't always disclose what it's designated for. For example the FrontCounter tool (the pics above provided by coops) shows crown land around the reservoir but the CRD atlas says it's BC Hydro land. Same goes for the Regional Water Supply Areas. They're generically shown as crown land but on the CRD atlas they say there's no public access allowed.

Most of the yellow private property areas in the pictures above have been zoned as Resource Lands (on the CRD Atlas). I have no idea what the RL designation means. There are a lot of areas listed as Unverified Crown Land, and once again I have no idea what the means either. I doubt the province coordinates that well with the CRD so the different maps might show different information.

iMapBC has a tonne of layers. If you go to Land Ownership and Status > Integrated Cadastral Fabric you can see the private and crown land areas. But be careful. Just because it says crown land it doesn't necessarily mean we can shoot there.

Confused? So am I.
 
Mr. said:
Off topic: BC is beautiful
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These days, that applies only to looking at it from the highway or from inside the city. On VI, it's pretty much been sold to the rich and closed off to the public.

Ever wonder how the Liberals here are balancing the books? It's by silently selling off crown lands (AKA the future) to afford the present.
 
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