On October 13, 2004 a group of the dedicated Youbou TimberLess Society members once again set out to see if it was true that more and more logs are leaving our area than ever before. On this day we counted 150 loaded logging trucks leaving the Lake Cowichan area in a 9 hour period. This compared with a previous count (4 years ago) at the same location reveals some startling facts. In 2000 the count for a 12 hour period at the same location was 107 trucks. or 9 trucks per hour..... jump to 2004 and there are 16.667 trucks per hour or 200 in a 12 hour period.
Do the math and see that almost 100 extra trucks per day are leaving on this one road in one area of our Island..

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