In January 1999 the plaintiff recovered 65 floating logs from the Fraser River in the Vancouver Log Salvage District. The plaintiff's employee held a log salvage permit that authorised her to salvage logs in the Vancouver Log Salvage District. The permit was issued pursuant to the Log Salvage Regulation BC Reg 220/81 enacted under the Forest Act, RSBC 1996 c157. Of the 65 recovered logs, 17 bore no visible timber marks. Gulf Log Salvage Co-Operative Association ("Gulf Log"), which ran the log receiving station under the provincial system, accepted 14 of the logs. Two other logs were accepted as deadheads, and the remaining log, an alder log, was placed into a debris bag for disposal.