RILED NEIGHBORS have
mude sure repercussions from
trees felled in the East Seymour
area have been heard at North
Vancouver District hall.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

Resident Joseph Finn sid he was
stunned by the “clearcut” he esti-
mates removed between 150) and
200 trees froma greenbelt near the
intersection of Indian River Road

_ tind Indian River Crescent recently.

“Eo can’t believe the district has
done this.” he said.

Finn wants an investigation into
why the trees were cutand steps that
yan be taken to ensure similar tree
pruning does not happen again.

Said neighbor Gordon Elgar: “It
looks pretty ugly up there.”

Not only is : Elgar upset about the
unsightly results of the cutfing. but
also the way the district did not
inform focal” residents of the
impending cuts until a sign was put
up the morning the district's axe
started swinging.

The district also removed the
undergrowth, causing Elgar, who
has lived in the subdivision since it
was built in 1988, to worry about the
water tuble and erosion,

He also wants to know where
revenue from the logs went.

District forest technician Ron
Myers said the trees were removed
after a wind storm caused trees to
topple in the greenbelt Feb. 12.

He said he did not know how
may trees were removed, but added
“there was nothing taken down that
didn’t have to.be, that’s for sure.”

Myers said the trees, which were
second-growth hemlocks of 24 to 36
metres (80 to 120 ft.), were removed
by Delta-based Bryan Peterson
Contracting. Logs were sold to a
mill.

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NORTH VANCOUVER District
forest technician Ron Myers
says tree had to go.

Money remaining after Peterson
Contracting took its cut will be used
to buy trees to replant in the green-
belt. Myers said.

On March 29, the district plans to
replant the area with cedars, firs and
maples of between two to three
metres high (six to 10 ft) with help
from community residents.

Myers agreed residents should
have been given more notice of the
district's tree-cuuiing plans, but
added there was pressure to get the
job done.

However. even if the residents
had been given more notice, there
would have been little public partie-
ipation in the decision to remove the
trees because the work had to be

‘done, he said.

Trees and sheubbery on the
ground constituted a fire hazard and
the trees hung up in other, trees a
safety hazard, said Myers,

He said the large machinery used
to tear away the trees ulso caused
resident concern, but was the best
way to remove the logs from the
area,

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