Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park was where the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic in British Columbia began.

A former NDP government decided to act like King Canute. King Canute defied the sea declaring that he could control the tide. The NDP government declared that they could defy Mother Nature.

They decided that they could stop a mature pine forest from burning. A forest fire is part of the life cycle of a pine forest. Wild fires were suppressed. Controlled burns set by foresters were not carried out as a substitute. Logging could not be considered in a provincial park.

Mother Nature sent in the pine beetle. The pine beetle spread outside the park and destroyed vast swathes of forest in the interior of the province.  The greatest environmental disaster BC has ever suffered is not acknowledged as something that could have easily been prevented.