Park needs permanent protection

Dear Editor:
Re: Lynn Headwaters Park
Lease

As reported in the News on
Oct. 2, the B.C. government
claims that they can not Crown-
grant the fands necessary to com-
plete Lynn Headwaters park
because the Land Act prohibits
granting land over 520 acres.

This ciaim is utter nonsense.
Section 48 of the Land Act states
that “Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this - Act,...the
Lieutenant Governor in Council
(Cabinet) may make or approve of
a@ grani of Crown land, free or
otherwise to a Crown corporation
or limited to a specific public
purpose.”

The prohibition to Crown-grant
lands over 520 hectares only ap-
plies to grants to private parties,
ot grants for public purposes
such as-.parks and, as an aside,
this size prohibition applies to
leases as well.

ii appears therefore that the
bureaucrats are concocting excuses
to get out of the Socred agreement
.to Crown-grant this land.

In 1985 both the City and the
District cf North Vancouver, in
their wisdom and_ foresight,
granted all their lands within the
Lynn Headwaters area to the
GVRD by way of a detailed park
trust agreement designed to pro-

vide the best possible protection to
the wilderness valucs of the area,
as well as to make it a permanent
park.

The bulk of the Headwaters
containing the best old growth,
however, is owned by the Crown
Provincial.

By 1989, as a result of lobbying
by many groups, Socred Minister
Terry Huberts agreed to transfer
the lands to the GVRD as a per-
manent park.

Interna! memos verify that staff
were directed to free Crown-grant
the land.

Bureaucratic delays stalled the
transfer and then in February of
this year the government changed
Its position and decided to only
lease the land for 30 years.

Local NDP MLA David
Schreck defended the lease by ig-
noring the threat 30 years from
now by the forest industry to log
it.

In 30 years the forest industry
will have logged every giant red
cedar that they can get their hands
on in this region and the prices
will go up according.

Lynn Headwaters contains the
largest red cedars in the region
outside the watersheds, and it
would be foolish to suggest that
there will not be any pressure to
log it when the !ease expires.

One has only to iook at the

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