Citing public safety concerns, the B.C. government is starting to permanently close off a forest service road (FSR) near Trout Lake that accesses homes and runs up the Incomappleux River toward Glacier National Park. Property owners, backcountry users, industry and environmentalists have voiced outrage over the province’s plans, describing lack of meaningful consultation and a strong rationale for the road to remain accessible. …The province has taken issue with the Incomappleux FSR due to hazardous events such as a rockfall in 2006 that damaged the structural integrity of a crevice bridge, prompting Ministry of Forests engineers to recommend closure. It’s said funds aren’t available to maintain the road, which has officially closed off since 2005, gated since 2017, and slated for deactivation since 2021. …If the province proceeds with deactivation, no alternative access exists for some 140 parcels and 28 landowners along a 13-kilometre stretch between the closure and farther up the Incomappleux Valley.