Doug-free | Logging cuts
water quality

diet pian

Dear Editor:

Re: Mr. Doug Collins “On
the Other Hand.”

I have worked on the North
Shore continuously since 1976.
As have many people I have had
to deal with all types of stres-
sors. One was driving in Lower
Mainland traffic to and from the
North Shore. Another was the
views expressed by Mr. Collins
in his “On the Other Hand” cel-
umn.

Moving to the North Shore
has enabled me to walk rather
than drive to work and that was
the first big stress reducer in my
ife.

A second big stress reducer
was eliminating Mr. Collins’
column and anything to do with
his diatribe from the material
that I choose to read. That
included letters to the editor
related to his column.

Tam happy to report that Iam
“Collins Stress-Free.” 1 hope
other readers will follow suit and
report their findings to you.

You might even get the occa-
sional report from readers whe
suffer from being unable to stop
reading Mr. Collins. Could be a
new disease. We'll call it
“Collaholic.” Pathology would
include verbal diarrhea.

Dave Waiker
North Vancouver

Dear Editor:

When it comes to “muddying the
waters” regarding the impact of for-
est practices on our drinking water
catchment areas Patrick Moore has
no equal.

In his Dec, 22 letter to the News
editor, Dr. Moore cites a study in
the Seymour watershed that con-
cluded: “logging was a contributing
factor in just five of 1,200 land-
slides.”

What Dr. Moore doesn't give us
in his letter is a comparison of the
total area of the clearcuts in which
the five slides occurred, and the
number of slides in an equal, com-
parable adjacent unlogged area. He
also fails to mention the respective
volumes of the soil material that
slid in the logged and unlogged
areas,

If Dr. Moore consults the scien-
tific literature, and in particular, the
Greater Vancouver Water District's
Watershed Management Evaluation
and Policy Review Final Summary
Report of August 1991 (Appendix
A), he will receive appropriate
enlightenment. There he will find
data showing that on an area-for-
area basis, on steep slopes between
27° and 35°, slides in our water-
sheds occur more frequently in
logged areas than in unlogged areas.

If Dr. Moore really gets the hang |
of apples-and-apples comparisons ¥

and delves a little further into the
literature, he will find abundant evi-
dence that mudslides in roaded and
clearcut areas are much larger than
natural mudslides in comparable
terrain.

In view of the above, it is plain-
ly not justified to contemplate any
further roadbuilding or clearcutting
in our drinking water catchment
areas, if indeed we want to cease
creating further water quality prob-
lems for ourselves in the future.
Mark Wareing, R.P.F.
Cloudraker Ecoforestry
Consulting

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