A river boxed in: How the Box Canyon log jam came to be – and what can be done about it

A river boxed in: How the Box Canyon log jam came to be – and what can be done about it

Steve Black, City of Revelstoke director of engineering looks over the newest logs added to the Illecillewaet River’s ever growing Box Canyon log jam. Photo by Lys Morton/Revelstoke Mountaineer The Illecillewaet River’s current Box Canyon log jam is the upstream threat in the back of many people’s minds since the first logs snared up the river in 2014.  There’s a long history of jams at that point in the river, less than five kilometres upstream…