Shooting range planned for Canal Flats
June 23, 2009 by Bram Rossman
Filed under Canal Flats, Columbia Valley, Local news, Recreation
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The range will be built in stages, with the rifle range set up first. Pistol, black powder, archery and silhouette shooting will follow at later dates. (Photo of Doug Kipp by Bram Rossman)
Gun lovers in Canal Flats may soon have a new place to play.
The Canal Flats Wilderness Club, which has been in existence since 1982, has made an application to the province for use of a 14.16 hectare piece of crown land. The club hopes to turn the area, located about 15 minutes out off town just off the Kootenay River Forest Service Road, into a sanctioned shooting range.
The club’s president, Dave White, said the idea simply grew out of need.
“The range is being built due to local demand and interest in shooting,” he said, noting that the area will be intended to accommodate archery, rifle, pistol, black powder and silhouette shooting. [Read more]
