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GINA ALLAN (left) and Jennifer McMahon shake out their feathers in preparation for the North
Shore Family YMCA’s Third Annual Turkey Trot set for the Ambleside seawall on Thursday, Oct. 8.
The fun three-km event starts at the West Van Y, 1735 Inglewood Ave., at 9:15 a.m.

GVRD board approves seven controversial cutblock areas on N. Shore

THE GREATER Vancouver Regional District (GVRD)
hoard of directors has approved the logging of seven con-

troversial cutblock areas

and Seymour watersheds.

Friday’s decision appeared to
be based on contractual obligations
and follows a recommendation
last month from the GVRD water
committee to approve the wal
shed logging, which would involve
about 42 hectares.

The North Shore watershed
timber cutblocks, representing a
profit to the GVRD of about $1.5
million, were originaily deferred
back to the GVRD’s water com-

the North Shore's Capilano

By Chery! Ziola

Contributing Writer

mittee for more study at the last
GYRD board meeting in July.

The deferral brought threats of
a mutlti-million-dollar breach-
of-contract lawsuit from = the
union representing loggers work-
ing for C and R Logging Lid.

C and R has a contract with the

GVRD that promises 90,000 cubic
metres of wood before the con-
tract’s expiry in December 1992.

GVRD water committee
members made the harvesting rec-
ommendation based on the
board’s ‘low-level, pro-active’
logging policy following additional
study and a tour of the proposed
cutblocks in August.

‘-level, pro-active means
logg presently healthy trees,
such as hemlock and balsam, that

idered susceptible to
fire or pestilence and
them with the more

Environmental groups such as
the Society Promoting En-
vironmental Conservation (SPEC)
and the Western Canadian
Wilderness Committee (WCWC)
are opposed to logging the water-
shed cutblocks, which they con-
sider ‘thealthy old-growth
forests."’

During the GYRD's two-hour
debate Friday on the cutblocks,
West Vancouver Mayor Mark
Sager, who is opposed to water-
shed logging, said the GVRD was
not obligated to produce the
quantity of wood contained in its
contract with C and R.

“Pm satisfied the contract
allows the GVRD the necessary
flexibility 10 choose the areas that
are to be cut (or) an alteration in
the anticipated volume to be cut,”
Sager said.

As to the anticipated costs of
cancelling the contract, he told the
News ‘‘that the staffs inter-
pretation, end | don’t agree with
it.’

In a later interview, North Van
couver City Mavor Jack Loucks
admitted that he hadn’t seen the
logging contract, but he said he

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