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April 7, 1995

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The News looks at the
performance of the North
Van District Council.

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Watershed |
timber cuts
to continue

THE GREATER Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD)
board has shelved North
Vancouver District’s bid to
stop logging in the Capilano
watershed.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

The GVRD will continue its exist-

ing watershed logging policy despite a move
by a local mayor to introduce a moratorium at

a March 31 board meeting.

But North Vancouver District Mayor

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NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

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NORTH VANCOUVER District proposed a moratori-
um to end local watershed logging. This photo was

taken in the Seymour watershed.

logging,” said Dykeman.

could declare a moratorium in that area so
that the public knew there wasn’t to be further

He added that his proposed moratorium

The current GVRD watershed poli-
cy is to.cut trees when they are dis-
eased, deemed to be a fire hazard or
must be removed for control of ero-
sion areas, said Dykeman.

But environmentalists continue to
lobby against the iegging of any trees
in local watersheds, claiming that log-
ging activity leads to erosion and
destroys the quality of local drinking
water. ;
North Vancouver District Council
tried to put some muscle behind its
anti-watershed-logging views on May
9, 1994.

At that time, a bylaw effectively
prohibiting heavy logging trucks from
using Lillooet Road and the northern
part of Capilano Road was enacted.
The roads are used by logging trucks
travelling to and from the Seymour
and Capilano watersheds. ‘

But after the district received a letter from
the provincial Minister of Transportation and
Highways on the issue, the Capilano Road

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portion of the district’s logging-truck bylaw
was ditched.
Dykeman said the bylaw was changed ,

would last until an ecological inventory of the
watershed has been made public.

Dykeman said that the GVRD has sched-
uled no timber cutblocks for fogging in the

Murray Dykeman said on Wednesday that
there are no timber harvesting cutblocks
planned for the Capilano watershed this year.
And, so far, none are planned for next year.

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“On that basis it seems logical that we

Seymour ‘watershed this year etiher.

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