Back Country Horsemen of British Columbia

Back Country Horsemen of B.C. (BCHBC) awarded its 2020  Outstanding Project Award to it's Northwest chapter..

The group has been around for approximately 15 years, but its project, the development of the Coalmine Camp, located on Telkwa Coal property only came together over the last three years.

This beautiful equestrian campsite now consists of a member clubhouse, a fenced horse corral, several individual horse camping sites, a horse shelter, watering system, manure containment structure, high lining station for horses, barbecue facility and campfire area, a contained vaulted pit toilet, 10-station equine training obstacle course, and trail maps for riding on private lands and adjacent Crown lands.

BCHCB Northwest chapter chair Tom Roper was very pleased to receive the award.

“It was awesome, because it was a lot of work,” he said.

Furthermore, Floyd Kennedy, vice-chair, who Roper credits with having been the driving force behind the Coalmine Camp project, won the BCHBC Volunteer of the Year Award.

“Floyd leads by example in a thoughtful and humble way and, of course, with infectious positive energy,” BCHBC said in a Facebook post.

In addition to many volunteer hours by a core group of local riders, the project was made possible by a grant from the Wetzin’Kwa Community Forest and an informal arrangement with Telkwa Coal, Roper said.

                      Floyd receiving his Volunteer and Project of the Year plaques from past President Brian Wallace.