The proposed road is called the Anahim Connector and its proponent, British Columbia’s Ministry of Forests, says it would be a “secondary fire-exit route” linking isolated First Nations and rural communities in the remote Anahim Lake area with Vanderhoof and Highway 16 to the northeast. It would slice between the Tweedsmuir and Itcha-Ilgachuz woodland caribou herds… Resource roads are punched into new areas of forest. Logging ensues. For a brief time following logging, the opened areas are attractive foraging grounds for moose and deer. As deer and moose move in, wolves do too. The wolves use the roads to more easily track and kill their prey. Any caribou in the area then fall prey to the wolves as well…