The Friends of Lac des Roches and Birch Lake came into existence in 2004 to fight a governmental body’s suggestion of creating a huge development on their lakes, which include Montana Lake. The group worked extremely hard to advise the “powers that be” that such a scheme for this pristine area was not good. All along they’ve had the backing of the Cariboo Regional District (CRD), which had long previously designated these lakes as “fragile”.
Eventually, Friends succeeded and the whole scheme was put “on hold”, but there is still potential for some sort of go-ahead as one side of the lakes are in the Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD). For that reason, there is movement afoot to have the regional district boundary moved so that the entire lakes area falls within the CRD.
The group meets every last Wednesday evening of the month at Bridge Lake Elementary School. For more details call Bill Jollymore at 593-9305.