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A NEW newsletter that focuses

on the Lower Mainland’s three -

. watersheds is an effort to guide
public opinion and ‘thwart the

« logging of old-growth forests
‘in watersheds.

.. By lan Noble
-News Reporter

Ross Muirhead, founder of
Watershed Intelligence and member
of- Friends of the Watershed, suid the
magazine’s inaugural issue is timely
because the Seymour, Capilano and
Coquitlam watersheds are undergo-
ing ecological inventories.

The ecological inventories will

- be. used to’ draw: up’ a long-term

“Management: plan for the water-
sheds. °" ;

~ > By bringing.out the first iss
now, the public will receive an.alter-

» Native’ view of what the ecological
“inventory: (is) all about, said)

Muirhead.

Watershed ‘management division ,
Cavill said”

administrator’ Bob C.
>Greater Vancouver Water’ District
. hopes ‘to’present the Seymour eco-
‘logical inventory to, the: public ‘as
soon as. this falle ” :

‘The Capilano. inventory is / ‘not ‘

expected lo be finished until some:

time in 1996, Cavill said.

ot. Muirhead worries the ecological
inventory will. provide-a renewed

tationale to Jog. old-growth timber

ander the guise of creating a stable. .
» ted owls, and a logging firm's court
Greater

diverse and fire-resistant cover,
“| have yet to-be swayed in the
i. least. that logging improves water
quality.” he said.
‘For his part, Cavill said he hopes
the inventory. will help: the’ public
understand the watersheds,
“Hopefully, this inventory. is
° broad enough that‘ it. will capture’a
“number of the risks associated with
“water quality and those are the kinds
‘of things what we'd like to talk
about with the public,” he said.
Muirhead said taxpayers are pay-
ing | fora $1 billion treatment project
“for .water taken from the: Capilano
nd Seymour watersheds because of
turbidity resulting from logging in
‘the watersheds...»
? Along ‘with, being ° the’ “driving
force “behind | the .

“washouts .-beside ‘roads’ in | the
Capilano watershed, ae
Th _ video, . narzated by ‘water-

newsletter, =
Muirhead ‘earlier photographed a —
ideo showing plugged culveris-and -

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

AUTHOR ROSS Muirhead’s Watershed Intelligence newsletters
aim to inform the public about past and current water issues
from a conservationist’s perspective.

shed historian Will Koop, received
widespread media attention,
Muirhead added his motivation
for writing the 24-page report was
yto provide background information

“to Incoming members, of the’ water

committee, which is s:omposed of
elected officials,

He said many of the new mem-
bers appointed carlier this) year
didn’t have backgrounds on wales
shed issues. '

Still. Muirhead said, they were
expected to. make important deci-
sions that affected the Lower
Mainland's drinking water.

The spring issue of Watershed
Intelligence includes articles. an
periods of turbidity that have closed
the taps at Capilano reservoir, spot-

victory ~ against. the

Vancouver Regional District.
ft also: includes an article on a

“cover-up,” saying -a

the effect ‘cutblocks had on land-
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Since logging resumed in 1961,
more than 4,000 hectares,/ (9, 640
aeres) of watershed lave been
logged and an additional 600
hectares (1.482 acres) hy ive been

destroyed due to road construction,

said Muirhead, 4

Although there is a thoratorium
on logning during the! inventory
process, Muirhead worrtes renewed
logging and road bililding will
increase turbidity levelk and lead to
more chlorine in local Avater.

He argues turbidity levels could
be reduced by allowing cleareuts to
become mature’ forests, retiring see-
ondary logging roads, filing reser-
voir banks with reinforcing niateri-
als, and banning logging and road
building.

Muirhead agrees. with thinning

second-growth forest to. start the

Process of it becoming. a closed

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