Gene Allen – Over My Dead Body
Gene Allen remains on the Board of Directors of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition.
Gene Allen, is a former logger whose family owns the Bear Claw Eco-Lodge on the Kispiox River. Gene Allen made his family fortune logging the Kispiox valley, and now wants to protect his new assets by preventing anyone from doing the same. Skeena Heliskiing operates from the exclusive Bear Claw Lodge, owned by Gene and Joy Allen and run by the Allen family. Gene Allen is also a rodeo stock contractor and maintains an active trapline. Gene worked as a logger and guide outfitter for most of his life and lives on his horse ranch in the Kispiox Valley. He is a leading member of the Kispiox Watershed Monitoring Committee and the Skeena Quality Waters Initiative.
Gene Allen owns the Kispiox Fishing Company, he is the head guide of his guided fishing company. The lodge (Bear Claw) is situated in the upper reaches of the Kispiox River valley, approximately 63 KM upstream of the river confluence with the Skeena in BC. More recently Gene Allen passed on some ownership to his daughter and son-in-law, the Bear Claw Lodge and Skeena Heliskiing now have in co-owners Kaleigh Allen and Martin Wehren.
Gene was also a leading campaigner against the clear cutting of the headwaters of the Kispiox River after he made his fortune doing exactly the same thing, he was successful in creating the Swan Lake Wilderness Area, preventing other such development from proceeding. (again to protect his new business ventures)
OVER MY DEAD BODY
Just how far does that mean he and or the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition (SWCC) willing to go to block pipelines?
