8 — Friday, August 28, 1992 — North Shore News

Send decision-makers into wilderness

the soi] und removed trees and soil

Dear Editor:

Spending three wei and soaking
days sheltered under a tarpaulin
on the wild north side of the
Brooks Peninsula, one has time to
reflect on many things.

The location could have been a
remote South Pacific island. The
green forested mountains disap-
peared into the ever-present mists.
We camped on a deserted beach
next to a creek-fed tidal lagoon.
What set it apart from the South
Pacific island was the
temperature, by a good 20
degrees.

The rain swept in every few
hours with tempest and
downpour. The clouds would part
to reveal waterfalls cascading
down the mountain faces into the
forest below. One would have ex-

pected the river feeding the lagoon
to be brown with silt. It remained
crystal clear and cold. This amaz-
ed us all as the rain was some of
the heaviest we'd seen by tropical
standards. Such rains would have
clouded Vancouver’s drinking
waters in a matter of hours.

The forest and its spongy floor
acted as a natural filter for the
rain water. The branches of the
trees controlled the amount of
rain that reached the ground. The
sponge-like nature of the forest
floor stored and released filtered
water down to more permeable
Strata which then fed the streams
and creeks. The water flowed
steady for many hours after the
rains stopped.

The forests of the Brooks
Peninsula are in an ecological

Reader suggests Hunter
should read between lines

Dear Editor:

Bob Hunter’s column of Aug.
20 considers U.S. motives in Iraq
and draws the wrong conclusions.

Does he not read between the
lines? May I suggest he look more
closely at U.S. weapons stockpil-
ing and the defence manufacturing
industry in particular?

How long could the U.S. keep
on manufacturing and stocking
weapons of uncertain value or
unproven performance? In terms
of military hardware technology,
the age of much of their equip-
ment dates from well before the
Vietnam fiasco.

Also, their military face of
honor has suffered silently for
twenty years. That war in Iraq
created a new manufacturing
surge in replacement of obsolete
weapons. Too bad that sucker
Saddam fell for the bait.

Now how about addressing this:
young sons of former Croatia or
other hate-driven iramigrants, by
at least two T.¥. accounts, being
allowed to go from Canada to act
as mercenaries. in what to them
are foreign countries. Other young
Canadian men might be their
targets and victims.

What is our Hon. Barbar Mac-
Dougal going to do about those

criminals of international law?
E.G. Dunn
North Vancouver

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hopefully will forever, remain
pristine and wild.

The forests of the North Shore

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looked like the green massif of the
Brooks Peninsula. Alas, man has
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North Vancouver

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