An hour’s drive southwest of Prince George (60 kilometers as the crow flies) lie the gently rolling slopes of the proposed Rosebud Mountain Reserve. Part of an ancient chain of volcanic ridges that extends north to Baldy Hughes, its elevation is around 2800 feet, 500 feet higher than the Barnes Creek ravine at its base.

Rangeland for close to a century, Rosebud Mountain is covered in aspen and Douglas Fir forests, intermixed with open meadows of grass, wild roses, hawthorne, and alder. It stands alone as one of the last unlogged hills in a vast concentration of clearcuts greater in area than the Bowron Clearcut.

Old Growth Douglas Fir are some of the largest recorded in Northern British Columbia, and forest of this age class are extremely rare in the Prince George area, composing only 0.06% of the landbase.

It is skirted to the west by the historic ranchlands of the upper Chilako (Mud) River and to the south and east by Barnes Creek. Seven kilomters to the east is the Provincial Campground on Punchaw Lake, the location of a 4,000 year old First Nations village site on the Grease Trail. Alexander Mackenzie staged his overland journey to the coast from here on this trail, which now bears his name.

In short, the proposed 4,000 hectare Rosebud Mountain Reserve is a unique, scenic location with important heritage and ecological values.

A film I made from 2015:

An Information video from 2011