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PROVINCIAL SOCIAL Services minister Joan Smallwood (lefi), Squamish Nation council chairman Les
Harry and Indian Affairs B.C. regional director John Watson celebrated an agreement on Thursday that
transfers child services responsitilities from the provincial government to the Squamish Nation within the
next four years. The band's family and child services program is called Ayas Men Men, which means peace
to our children.

GVRD water committee backs decision to clear-cut 36-hectare Cap site

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THE GREATER Vancouver Regional Disirict’s (GVYRD)

water committee has unanimously endorsed

logging in

another portion of the Capilano watershed.

The committee made its deci-
sion Thursday on the 36-hectare
(90-acre) cutblock after touring
the area.

The cutblock was selected by
watershed staff on the basis of an
independent ecological consul-
tant’s report.

The report stated that the
cutblock had a moderate to high
fire risk complicated by some
hemlock trees being infected by
the dwarf mistletoe pest.

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By Cheryl Ziola
Contributing Writer

by the water committee to find an
acrial harvesting test site within
the GVRD watersheds to deter-
mine whether aerial harvesting
would be a more environmentally
sound method of logging in the
watersheds,

Although watershed staff have
still not produced a net value of
the timber in the cutblock, the

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GVRD’s preliminary estimate was
$1 million.

The estimate, however, does not
include replanting fees or the
GVRD's costs to test the new
aerial fogging process, which
would involve removing trees via
helicopters.

North Vancouver District
Mayor Murry Dykeman said after
Thursday’s meeting he had no
concerns about Jogging the site.

“The inspection did indicate
there were reasons for interven-
tion...and the process of doing it
on an aerial basis seemed most
logical,’ he said.

When questioned about endars-

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are factored in, Dykeman said
cost or net profit is not the issue.

“The object of the exercise was
to do some watershed manage-
ment and not some logging
management,’* he said.

Dykeman added that he planned
to endorse the logging decision
when it goes to the GVRD board
for final approval in late June,
unless the harvesting costs prove
too excessive.

Instead of clear-cutting the area
and replacing diseased hemlock
trees with cedar and fir, en-

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