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1992 if the Greater Vancouver Regional District board of
directors accepts a recent recommendation from its water

committee.

At a Tuesday mecting, the
water committee passed a recom-
mendation to allow the GVRD’s
existing contract with C&R Logg-
ing Ltd. to expire Dec. 31, 1992.
The contract with Marsh Logging,
which provides log-booming ser-
vices for the GVRD, was extended
to the same date.

The committce also endorsed a

E ACHING

By Elizabeth Collings
News Reporter

recommendation from Richmond
mayor and committee chairman
Greg Halsey-Brandt that would
limit the 1992 tree harvesting pro-
gram to insect- or disease-stricken

those that create a fire
hazard, and for erosion control.

An amendment to stop water-
shed logging at the end of 1991 —
proposed by North Vancouver
District Mayor Murray Dykeman
and seconded by West Vancouver
Mayor Mark Sager — was
defeated.

According to GVRD spokesman

d Elsie, terminating logging at
the end of 1991 would cost the
GVRD between $3.5 million and
$4 million for 1992 ($2.5 million
to buy out the existing one-year

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logging contract and $1.2 million
in logging revenues for 1992) or
5% of the annual water district's
budget.

But Dykeman said Thursday
that he was concerned with
preserving water quality, not rev-
enuc.

During a period of heavy rain-
fall in November 1990, the tur-
bidity levels in the Seymour reser-
voir was over 40 times higher than
those recommended under na-
tional drinking water standards.

Environmental groups, led by
the Western Canada Wilderness
Committee, have called fe a
moratorium on logging in the
Lower Mainland’s watersheds
because they claim it causes
mudslides that result in high

drinking water turbidity.

Dykeman later supported the
motion to stop logging at the end
of 1992 because, he said, the
harvest would be based on a risk
management philosophy.

“1 felt that we did win within
the water committee to come to
this very restricted logging ap-
proach,’’ said Dykerman.

The GVRD board will also con-
sider a recommendation from the
water committee to start in 1992
an ecological inventory of water-
shed lands, including vegetation
and timber resuurces, soils and
stability, insect. and disease status,
fire susceptibility, climate, and
wildlife and fishery resources.

See Sager page 3