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THE contentious issue

‘of watershed logging "

/ vegularly’results in envi

“* conmentalists and the
Greater Vancouver)
Regional District
“(GVRD) squaring off
- from opposite sides of
the rings ;

-Environtnenta
* ging contributes to! wri,

“the brown Water-ithat sane:

times escapes from Lower

oo “Mainland ‘taps during rainy.

periods,

,_ bidity on natural events: in the
“watershed,

Now, a ‘referee wil help
resolve ‘that. issue .and_ others -
that affect the! qquality « of your,
“tap water, we

Peter Pearse sis a "former:
University « of British, Columbia

istsiinay.® ‘lope

“hy Pearse
The GVRD maintains that’ Se
* Hot $0. Instead, they blame tire

professor wha" spechalizes in
natural resource problems aitd

* pthelr management

He's worked on roy al come
misstons. for Aisherles cand
forestry and a‘review: of water
policies tn Canada, "

He and avo colleagues well-
versed in the movements of
sediment in water and forest
succession will turn their anen-
ton to the” GVRD's three

© watersheds, wo of which are
‘located on? the ciioist, green

North Shore,

The‘ goal, he said, is to”

design a long-term manage:
ment plan for satersheds that

Jail ‘minkinize risks to water

quality, © S-
said the trie has:
Humber of issties to resolve, the

most contentious. of which is.’
the firure of logging in local

watersheds,

lt 1991, the GVRD start-
éd to. work “toward! ending
commercial logging in. the
watersheds and now follows a
policy of logging only for the
‘purposes of reducing risk to

i sone mn
questi

water «quality, :

Others want to see logging .,
stopped completely.

“To clear the alr the GRD
has decided they need a torally
independent audit done by the
best scientific talents they can
put together,” said Pearse,

Fle told the. News, thatthe
GVAD fs. currently “drifting
without a clear plan of action,
In a report’ that's: available to
the public, Pearse sald disring
the past century “we have prac:
ticed a careless inastery" in

.. Vancouver watersheds,

Roads were built and trans:
mission and pipelines threaded
through the watersheds,

“In the shadows of ancient -

“forests, we logged and burned,

introduced new pests and
dammed rivers to: create reser-
voirs,” said: Pearse'in the pref
ace to the Draft Report of the.
Scientific Review panel.

Pearse called. the GVRD's
justifications “for — building
roads, such as their _usefidness
in comrolting fire," question-

“vith ni adetss soul
ed, Isit really necessary to build

“roads to the size and stajidards”

of major haul roads?" he asked,
Pearse wants to open tlie.
lisession on that public access“

to local watersheds, Hesaid the whether the panel has touched

Fd Sung 20, {aor - North shero Nows ~ 11 = _

at The, “Tivtighters Pall at’

6515 Bonsor, Hurnaby, an
Saturday, June 28,

“Pearse said the meeting will
inform: people about what's
golts on and help determine

panel needs to investigate the. "on all the issues residents want

extent to which water quality Is
threatened by public and recre-
atignal users;

Pearse wants to look at include:
“how important are natural
disturbances such as. fire in
maintaining, natural diversity
and hoy can they be replicated

through logging or other artifi-

cial meastires? i

disease infestation in the water-
shed forests, and. what are. rhe

responses that will best protect -

water quality?
The panel, also wants to

Ah

; 4 agement) plan’
8 Whar is tle risk of insect and? drawn up. by: the, Pearse come, *:

investigate ‘other water quality”

issues such as.water-borne. dis-
eases that include giardia: and
cryptosporidium,

A. watershed. workshop

chaired by Pearse will be held =,

Men's & Women’s

discussed,

‘The nest step is to collate
data from ‘inillions of dollars:
Some of the other questions © -warth of watershed “thventory:

‘studies the | GVRD + has
embarked on. A report on. that

_ Will be completed:in the fall,
when Pearse expects a second .

public meeting to be held:
Finally, a’ draft watershed
will be

mission by spring 1998, when

the plan will be put to public

serutiny,
“It's hard ta! predict what
Nill jbe in that plan,” said ;

A Complete tad: EO
Pl oil & filter change,
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“North

Pe arses “If we do all thts tight,
ihe: (GVRD) board may” be
“Fable to make adiffcult decision

with: the? assurances they!ve

“brought the best selene to

bear on tt and they are doing, -
thy “right: thing in wpe of
Ynevitable eritictsm,”

Ross Muirhead, . the!
Vancouverbaced
Friends ofthe Watersheds,
worries that the three: panel -

members will summarize enist:
© tng reports and? draw: conclas

ston from them, Muirlead said.
panelists must be prepared, to
reject, GVRD reports they do
not generate the kind of lata,
nevded to. get-at the truth

how. to best manage’ naval

sheds. © vi

“T he" problem with. the
process is, there his been attack
of yood. experiments inthe
watersheds “to draw: conelu-
isions,”, he’ said, 2 4

Afterreading ‘the * ey arty
Muirhead, said Friends worries
that the “panel's: coneltis

will be political rather than sets

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