-. dan-Christian Sorensen
Contributing Writer
‘TE you develop it, they will .

. come.

“": |. That was the concern voiced by sev-
eral participants during a workshop on
the: furure’ of the Lower Seymour
Conservation. Reserve (LSCR) April

'19. The session is one of five designed

/ 10 give nearby residents and concerned

-ditizens a say in the development of 2
new management plan for the LSCR.

‘.. During: the workshop — which
focused. on sensitive ‘ereas and features

of the 5,200-sq.-hectare tact of land — '

at least’ four le ‘exp,essed concern
that too many visitors could spell an
ecological catastrophe fGr the reserve. -

ear over 300,000 people visit
the. i *R;. located ‘south of the
Seymour. and Capilano watersheds and
wedged between the Lynn Headwaters
regional. park and ‘Mount Seymour
provincial park:

: The .LSCR was first opened to the
public: sin 1987 as © the . Seymour
Demonstration Forest. It was renamed.
last year. : :

hol aréa is. very sensitive,”
said one’ participant. -“And the worst
problem up there is people. All the sen-

itive areas of the world have been -
destroyed by. man and they can destroy os

within ‘a decade or'so.”*.; .
‘it least two: people suggested set-

ing -aside: certain “peopte-prohibited” :
ets of the reserve to’ preserve the -
natural ‘beauty’ of the area: as ‘well as

wildlife habitat. -

Several: speakers also expressed con: |.
cern! over,a-discussion that the LSCR-
host greater groups of tourists as part < Of”

the forest you have to watch how many.”
bring up’ there,”: said: Mike.
cof. operations and :

ticipant who did not saree." :
“He’s in favour: of introducing care:

Beatty of the ISCR:

what a: 300-foot;
what ¥ we have"

“Then people can walk up to a tree
‘Thi: ;

Promoting
~ Conservation, said that he would like to

_Teserve’s
- Construction on the 39-year-old dam is.
‘to begin in 2002, with a $130-mullion -

Wednesday, May 3. 2000 — Morth Shore News - 15

NORTH SHORE HEWS

Reserve’s future

scussed

left he said.

le doesn’t support any

that would see cermin areas ofthe pack the park
cordoned off from visitors.

“We just got finished opening it,”
he said, “and now they’re saying we've
got to protect it and not let anybody in.
Most of it was levelled (through log-

ging) and now you won't let anybody
walk up to a tree? It’s going from one

_extreme to another.”

We need to allow access to every-
body. I don’: want to get caught up in
some vague border concept oF close
parts of the reserve to people.

Will Koop, of the Society
Environmental

see the re-introduction of Sitka spruce
to the LSCR.

. “In the Lower Mainland the Sitka
spruce populations have been wiped
Cat, ” he said. “This is an opportunity in
the ‘long term to re-introduce the twee
fo 0 area where there are very few
eft.” :
Others wanted to see the develop-

ment of a catalogue of the LSCR’s

native fora and fauna, a system adopt-

ed for accurate counts on animal species

‘and old growth forest areas protected.
The LSCR supplies over 90% of the

- Lower Mainland with water and is the
*‘GVRD"s priority source of water in case

of emergency.
Planned water utilities projects with-

‘in the LSCR include a seismic upgrade

of: the - {Seymour Falls Dam on the
northern border. ~~

water. filtration: plant. on the drawing «

"+ board for that same year. ~

» The, GVRD-is ‘also twinning the

‘watermain pipeline that runs

the reserve adjacent to the 13-

km -Majaline. Road that cuts through’
the park.

The management plan may also

include the flooding ofa portion of the

reserve to create a new watershed reser- .

-yoir 50 years down the road. : ‘

The: next public workshop, on
research, demonstration, education and

.., filming in the LSCR, will rake place on
* al Thursday, May 21 at Capilano College.

‘we more sessions —~ one on water

; utilities management and one on recre-
ation — will take place Jater i in eMe and |

June. °

Brown-nosers

LISTENERS of Vancouver radio station XFRM recently raced to Chesterfield Avenue and AE
Espianade to try and win tickets te an upcoming Beck concert. Zow Norcross, far: right, -
was able to do pushupe over a pile of steer manure the longest, and won the tickets. ©

Responding to

YOU'D be
amazed at the
number of peo-
ple who
approach me
when I’m out -
- and about with
suggestions of
topics for me to
: write about.
It’s a good thing really, because I sometimes get
tired of my own stuff. And io be honest, some of my

best ideas for columns aren’t even mine.
° Besides, 1 feel it’s my job to occasionally reflect the

; “concerns of my fellow citizens. So for today, here’s a

sampling of some of the recent suggestions I’ve heard.
Neil, my gentleman friend from the doggie park,
wants me to write about the disgraceful amount of liter

he’s seen strewn about the North Shore ately. Neil’s

» outraged; can’t understand people who would just toss

their ge about when there arc: plenty of garbage
cans ealatle. “Who are these pigs?” he asks me, curi-
ous and furious at the same time.

I’m not sure who they are, Neil, but for what i it’s

10 years with

‘Windsor Plywood

reader peeves

worth, I think we ‘need a new anti-litter campaign. It
seemed to work when-I was young, asid I'd wager ir:

‘ would work now too.

My friend Leslie, who is newly single; has suggeste
I write about the.well meaning but slighty off track
friends who set you up with dates without even telling .

- you. “It’s not fair,” she says,

“especialy df you don’t
actually want a date. They should at least give you
some warning that you’re on the block.”

Darn right, they should. I’ve been in the “‘surprise
date” situation and it’s more than a little embarrassin
But I’ve figured out how to deal with it. Juist casually
mexdon you have teenaged kids at home and even th
most admiring, potentials will back off immediately. (I
knew those litte dickens would conie in handy soo!
or later.)

Oh, and I got a long |
machine the other day,

message 0 my ering:
om my friend Wendy the

estate agent, positively ‘spitting mad about: fog poop.

“Shannon,” the breathless message ge

_some in from a run in the canyon,
. fan past at least a half dozen plastic bags full‘of dog

poop, just plop cae down aloneide the ‘It’s so:

rude”, sh

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